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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
vRealize Business Standard Edition provides the following benefits:
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Drives accountability by providing visibility into the cost of virtual infrastructure and public cloud
providers.
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Promotes efficiencies in the virtual infrastructure by making it possible to compare the costs,
efficiency, and availability of their private cloud with public cloud providers and industry benchmark
data.
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Optimizes decisions about placement for virtual workloads and tradeoffs between buying new
hardware and using public cloud providers.
For more information about vRealize Business Standard Edition, see the
vRealize Business Standard Edition documentation set.
Application Services Overview
Formerly known as Application Director, Application Services automates and manages the life cycle of
deployments for multitier enterprise applications in hybrid cloud environments.
Enterprise users can standardize, deploy, configure, update, and scale complex applications in dynamic
cloud environments. These applications can range from simple Web applications to complex custom
applications and packaged applications. Artifact management supports the use of logical names for build
files and other types of software artifacts, allowing users to deploy applications without regard for the
physical location or identifier of such files.
Application architects can use the drag-and-drop interface to create visual application blueprints.
Application architects can use the prepopulated and extensible library of standard logical templates,
application infrastructure service, components, and scripts to model an application blueprint. These
blueprints standardize the structure of the application, including software components, dependencies, and
configurations, for repeated deployments.
Teams can deploy application blueprints across different environments. Teams can repeatedly deploy a
standard blueprint, customize configurations as allowed, and deploy in IT-approved deployment
environments.
From an application blueprint, you can create different deployments by using deployment profiles to test
prototypes or deploy mission-critical multitier applications in production environments. You can use
composite deployment files to bundle deployment profiles, bind their properties, and deploy them in a
specified order. You can also publish deployment profiles as catalog items in vRealize Automation.
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