6.2
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
A tenant administrator creates business groups and designates managers for each group.
After business groups are created, a fabric administrator can create reservations. A reservation allocates
provisioning resources in the fabric group to a specific business group. Optionally, the fabric administrator
can configure policies such as reservation policies that control placement of provisioned machines, or
cost profiles that associate a cost with the use of specific compute resources.
When the fabric administrator has created reservations, the tenant administrator or business group
managers can create machine blueprints and publish them to the catalog.
Infrastructure Source Endpoints
Infrastructure sources can include a group of virtualization compute resources, a cloud service account,
or a physical management interface.
An IaaS administrator configures an infrastructure source by specifying the endpoint details and
credentials that vRealize Automation can use to communicate with the source.
vRealize Automation collects information about all configured infrastructure sources at regular intervals.
This information includes virtualization hosts, templates, and ISO images for virtualization environments;
virtual datacenters for vCloud Director; regions and machines provisioned on them for Amazon; and
installed memory and CPU count for physical management interfaces.
Table 4‑1. Examples of Infrastructure Source Endpoints
Infrastructure Source Endpoints
vSphere (vCenter) vCenter server
Hyper-V (SCVMM) Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager server
KVM (RHEV) Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization server
vCloud Director vCloud Director server
Amazon AWS Cloud service account
Dell iDrac or HP iLO Single standalone machine
Cisco UCS Manager Pool of physical machines
For a complete list of supported infrastructure source endpoints, see the vRealize Automation Support
Matrix.
Compute Resources
A compute resource is an object that represents a host, host cluster, or pool in a virtualization platform, a
virtual datacenter, or an Amazon region on which machines can be provisioned.
An IaaS administrator can add compute resources to or remove compute resources from a fabric group. A
compute resource can belong to more than one fabric group, including groups that different fabric
administrators manage. After a compute resource is added to a fabric group, a fabric administrator can
create reservations on it for specific business groups. Users in those business groups can then be
entitled to provision machines on that compute resource.
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