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Table Of Contents
Contents
Foundations and Concepts 5
Using Scenarios 6
Using the Goal Navigator 6
Introducing vRealize Automation 6
Providing On-Demand Services to Users Overview 7
vRealize Business Standard Edition Overview 10
Tenancy and User Roles 11
Tenancy Overview 11
User Roles Overview 16
Service Catalog 21
Requesting and Managing Items in the Catalog 21
Creating and Publishing Catalog Items 22
Services for the Service Catalog 22
Catalog Items 23
Actions 23
Entitlements 23
Approval Policies 24
Infrastructure as a Service 24
Configuring Infrastructure Fabric 25
Infrastructure Source Endpoints 25
Compute Resources 26
Data Collection 26
Fabric Groups 27
Business Groups 27
Machine Prefixes 28
Resource Reservations 28
Configuring Reservation Policies 29
Machine Blueprints 29
Machine Leases and Reclamation 30
Machine Reconfiguration 31
XaaS Blueprints and Resource Actions 31
Creating XaaS Blueprints and Actions 32
Custom Resources 32
Resource Mappings 32
XaaS Blueprints 33
Resource Actions 33
Designing Forms for XaaS Blueprints and Actions 33
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