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Table Of Contents
- Foundations and Concepts
- Contents
- Foundations and Concepts
- Using Scenarios
- Using the Goal Navigator
- Introducing vRealize Automation
- Tenancy and User Roles
- Service Catalog
- Infrastructure as a Service
- XaaS Blueprints and Resource Actions
- Common Components
- Life Cycle Extensibility
- vRealize Automation Extensibility Options
- Leveraging Existing and Future Infrastructure
- Configuring Business-Relevant Services
- Extending vRealize Automation with Event-Based Workflows
- Integrating with Third-Party Management Systems
- Adding New IT Services and Creating New Actions
- Calling vRealize Automation Services from External Applications
- Distributed Execution
Configuring Infrastructure Fabric
The IaaS administrator and fabric administrator roles are responsible for configuring the fabric to enable
provisioning of infrastructure services. Fabric configuration is system-wide and is shared across all
tenants.
IaaS
Administrator
Store
Credentials
Create Fabric
Groups and
Fabric Administrator
Create
Endpoints
Fabric
Administrator
Create
Machine
Prefixes
Create
Reservations
Configure
Networking
and Security
An IaaS administrator creates an endpoint to configure access to an infrastructure source. When the
connection to an infrastructure source is established, vRealize Automation collects information about the
compute resources available through that source. The IaaS administrator can then organize those
resources into fabric groups and assign a fabric administrator to manage each group as well as cross-
tenant configuration such as machine prefixes.
A fabric administrator can create reservations to allocate provisioning resources in the fabric group to
specific business groups that the tenant administrator created during tenant configuration. Optionally, the
fabric administrator can configure reservation, network, or storage reservation policies. For example, they
can create a reservation policy to control placement of provisioned machines.
When the fabric administrator has created reservations, the IaaS architects can create and publish
machine blueprints for reuse in application blueprints and for catalog administrators to make available in
the service catalog.
Infrastructure Source Endpoints
Infrastructure sources can include a group of virtualization compute resources or a cloud service account.
An IaaS administrator configures an infrastructure source by specifying the endpoint details and
credentials that vRealize Automation can use to communicate with the source.
vRealize Automation collects information about all configured infrastructure sources at regular intervals.
This information includes virtualization hosts, templates, and ISO images for virtualization environments;
virtual datacenters for vCloud Director; and regions and machines provisioned on them for Amazon.
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