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Table Of Contents
- Foundations and Concepts
- Contents
- Foundations and Concepts
- Introducing vRealize Automation
- Tenancy and User Roles
- Service Catalog
- Infrastructure as a Service
- Advanced Service Designer
- Common Components
- Extensibility
- vRealize Automation Extensibility Options
- Leveraging Existing and Future Infrastructure
- Configuring Business-Relevant Services
- Integrating with Third-Party Management Systems
- Adding New IT Services and Creating New Actions
- Calling vRealize Automation Services from External Applications
- Distributed Execution
Infrastructure as a Service 4
With Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), you can rapidly model and provision servers and desktops across
virtual and physical, private and public, or hybrid cloud infrastructures.
This chapter includes the following topics:
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Configuring Infrastructure Fabric
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Infrastructure Source Endpoints
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Compute Resources
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Data Collection
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Fabric Groups
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Business Groups
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Machine Prefixes
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Resource Reservations
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Configuring Reservation Policies
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Cost Profiles
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Machine Blueprints
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Machine Leases and Reclamation
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Machine Reconfiguration
Configuring Infrastructure Fabric
The IaaS administrator and fabric administrator roles are responsible for configuring the fabric to enable
provisioning of infrastructure services. Fabric configuration is system-wide and is shared across all
tenants.
An IaaS administrator creates an endpoint to configure access to an infrastructure source. When the
connection to an infrastructure source is established, vRealize Automation collects information about the
compute resources available through that source. The IaaS administrator can then organize those
resources into fabric groups and assign a fabric administrator to manage each group.
In addition to managing physical machines and compute resources in a fabric group, fabric administrators
also manage cross-tenant configuration such as machine prefixes.
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