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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
Contents
Foundations and Concepts 5
Updated Information 5
Using the Goal Navigator 6
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Introducing vRealize Automation 7
Service Catalog Overview 7
Infrastructure as a Service Overview 8
Advanced Service Designer Overview 8
vRealize Business Standard Edition Overview 8
Application Services Overview 9
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Tenancy and User Roles 10
Tenancy Overview 10
User and Group Management 11
Comparison of Single-Tenant and Multitenant Deployments 11
User Roles Overview 15
System-Wide Role Overview 15
System-Wide Roles and Responsibilities 16
Tenant Role Overview 17
Tenant Roles and Responsibilities in vRealize Automation 18
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Service Catalog 21
Requesting and Managing Items in the Catalog 21
Creating and Publishing Catalog Items 22
Service Categories 22
Catalog Items 22
Actions 23
Entitlements 23
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Infrastructure as a Service 25
Configuring Infrastructure Fabric 25
Infrastructure Source Endpoints 26
Compute Resources 26
Data Collection 27
Fabric Groups 28
Business Groups 28
Machine Prefixes 29
Resource Reservations 29
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