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
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1. Leverage existing and future infrastructure
Windows
amazon
web services
vmware
vCloud
Provider
vmware
vCloud
VMware
vSphere
Microsoft
Hyper-V
CITRIX
Xen
LINUX
Physical
Virtual
Cloud
vRealize Automation
vRealize Automation RESTAPI
Policy Management Design Center
Multi-vendor,
Multi-cloud
Advanced Services
Designer
5. Call vRealize Automation services
from existing applications
ServiceNow PMG Remedy
Homegrown service catalog
Compute Infrastructure (virtual, physical,
public cloud)
Software deployment methodologies
3. Integrate with
3rd party
management
systems
CMDB
DNS
IPAM
Load Balancers
Service Desk
Monitoring
Storage
Databases
Web Services
Etc.
4. Add new IT
services and
create new
day-2 operations
Storage as a
Service, Load
Balancing as a
Service, etc.
Backup a VM,
open a ticket or
a machine, etc.
vRealize
Orchestrator
IT Process
Automation
2. Configure business-
relevant services
Specify provisioning
methodology
Service entitlements
Custom properties
Resource reservations
Specify custom
machine/OS properties
Etc.
Leveraging Existing and Future Infrastructure
vRealize Automation provides support for many types of infrastructure and provisioning methods.
Infrastructure administrators can integrate with several infrastructure sources including virtual hypervisors,
such as vSphere, Hyper-V, KVM (RHEV), and so on, public clouds including VMware vCloud
®
Air™ and
Amazon AWS, and physical infrastructure.
Blueprint authors can control many machine options, including provisioning methods, by configuring
blueprints for various types of infrastructure.
For a full list of supported infrastructure types and provisioning methods, see the vRealize Automation
Support Matrix. For information about configuring infrastructure blueprints, see the IaaS Configuration
documentation for the relevant machine type.
Configuring Business-Relevant Services
The vRealize Automation console enables administrators to configure business- and user-specific policies
through a web-based user interface without writing any code.
These business policies include entitlements and approvals for the service catalog, resource reservation
policies for infrastructure, and many others. For information about customization tasks that you can
perform through the vRealize Automation console, see Tenant Administration or the IaaS Configuration
documentation for the relevant machine type.
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