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
The vRealize Automation runtime environment consists of one or more DEM Worker instances that can
execute any workflow installed in the core engine. Additional Worker instances can be added as needed
for scalability, availability and distribution.
Skills can be used to associate DEMs and workflows, restricting execution of a given workflow to a
particular DEM or set of DEMs with matching skills. Any number and combination of skills can be
associated with a given workflow or DEM. For example, workflow execution can be restricted to a specific
datacenter, or to environments that support a specific API the workflow requires. The vRealize
Automation Designer and the CloudUtil command-line tool provide facilities for mapping skills to DEMs
and workflows.
For more information about distributed execution and working with skills, see Machine Extensibility .
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