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Infrastructure as a Service Overview
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.
Modeling is accomplished by creating a machine blueprint, which is a specification for a virtual, cloud, or
physical machine. Blueprints are published as catalog items in the common service catalog. When a user
requests a machine based on one of these blueprints, IaaS provisions the machine.
With IaaS, you can manage the machine life cycle from a user request and administrative approval
through decommissioning and resource reclamation. Built-in configuration and extensibility features also
make IaaS a highly flexible means of customizing machine configurations and integrating machine
provisioning and management with other enterprise-critical systems such as load balancers, configuration
management databases (CMDBs), ticketing systems, IP address management systems, or Domain Name
System (DNS) servers.
Advanced Service Designer Overview
With the Advanced Service Designer, service architects can create advanced services and publish them
as catalog items.
With advanced services, you can provide anything as a service using the capabilities of
VMware vRealize ™ Orchestrator ™. For example, you can create a service that allows a user to request
a backup of a database. After completing and submitting a backup request, the user receives a backup
file of the database they specified.
With the Advanced Service Designer, a service architect can create custom resource types mapped to
vRealize Orchestrator object types and define them as items to be provisioned. A service architect can
then create blueprints from vRealize Orchestrator workflows and publish the blueprints as catalog items.
The vRealize Orchestrator workflows can be either predefined or independently developed by workflow
developers.
You can also use the Advanced Service Designer to design additional actions that the consumer of the
service can perform on the provisioned items. These additional actions are connected to
vRealize Orchestrator workflows and take the provisioned item as input to the workflow. To use this
function for items provisioned by sources other than the Advanced Service Designer, you must create
resource mappings to define their resource types in vRealize Orchestrator.
For more information about vRealize Orchestrator and its capabilities, see the vRealize Orchestrator
documentation.
vRealize Business Standard Edition Overview
With vRealize Business Standard Edition, directors of cloud operations can monitor their expenditures
and design more cost-efficient cloud services.
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