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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
Table 8. Data Collection Types
Data Collection Type Description
Infrastructure Source Endpoint Data Collection Updates information about virtualization hosts, templates, and
ISO images for virtualization environments. Updates virtual
datacenters and templates for vCloud Director. Updates regions
and machines provisioned on them for Amazon.
Inventory Data Collection Updates the record of the virtual machines whose resource use
is tied to a specific compute resource, including detailed
information about the networks, storage, and virtual machines.
This record also includes information about unmanaged virtual
machines, which are machines provisioned outside of
vRealize Automation.
State Data Collection Updates the record of the power state of each machine
discovered through inventory data collection. State data
collection also records missing machines that
vRealize Automation manages but cannot be detected on the
virtualization compute resource or cloud endpoint.
Performance Data Collection (vSphere compute resources only) Updates the record of the average CPU, storage, memory, and
network usage for each virtual machine discovered through
inventory data collection.
vCNS inventory data collection (vSphere compute resources
only)
Updates the record of network and security data related to
vCloud Networking and Security and NSX, particularly
information about security groups and load balancing, for each
machine following inventory data collection.
WMI data collection (Windows compute resources only) Updates the record of the management data for each Windows
machine. A WMI agent must be installed, typically on the
Manager Service host, and enabled to collect data from
Windows machines.
Fabric Groups
An IaaS administrator can organize virtualization compute resources and cloud endpoints into fabric
groups by type and intent. One or more fabric administrators manage the resources in each fabric group.
Fabric administrators are responsible for creating reservations on the compute resources in their groups
to allocate fabric to specific business groups. Fabric groups are created in a specific tenant, but their
resources can be made available to users who belong to business groups in all tenants.
Business Groups
A business group associates a set of services and resources to a set of users, often corresponding to a
line of business, department, or other organizational unit.
Business groups are managed in Administration > Users and Groups and are used when creating
reservations and entitling users to items in the service catalog.
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