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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
You can use the metrics to identify underused machines that might be candidates for reclamation. Select
the candidate machines and send a reclamation request to the owners of the machines. The machine
owner has a fixed period of time to respond to the request. If the machine is still in use, the owner can
stop the reclamation process and continue using the machine. If the machine is no longer needed, the
owner can release the machine for reclamation, in which case the machine lease is ended. If the owner
does not respond in a timely manner, a lease determined by the administrator is imposed. If the owner
continues to take no action, the machine is powered off on the new expiration date, the machine is
reclaimed, and the resources are freed.
Machine Reconfiguration
vSphere, vCloud Air, and vCloud Director platforms support reconfiguration of existing machines to
modify specifications for CPU, memory, storage, or networks. A machine owner can request a
reconfiguration when the machine is in either the On or Off state.
Reconfiguration requests are subject to approval based on entitlements, policies, and the actions enabled
for machine components in the blueprint.
Table 10. vSphere , vCloud Air , and vCloud Director Machine Reconfigure Scenarios
Scenario Required Entitlements
The machine owner can begin a reconfiguration to run
immediately after any required approvals are given.
Reconfigure
The machine owner can specify a date and time to run the
reconfiguration. Reconfiguration can be rescheduled if the
request is not approved until after the scheduled time.
Reconfigure
If the reconfiguration fails, the machine owner can retry the
operation.
Execute reconfigure
The machine owner can cancel a scheduled reconfiguration, or
if a reconfiguration attempt fails, the user can cancel the
reconfiguration operation instead of retrying.
Cancel reconfigure
Before proceeding with the reconfiguration, vRealize Automation validates that the requested resources
are available on the machine's current reservation. If the reconfiguration request decreases the amount of
resources that the machine uses, these resources are not deallocated and made available to other
requests until after the reconfiguration finishes successfully.
If the reconfiguration fails, any additional resources, such as storage, that were allocated in anticipation of
the reconfiguration are deallocated and made available to other machine requests.
XaaS Blueprints and Resource Actions
XaaS architects can use the XaaS options to create blueprints and publish them to the service catalog.
They can also create and publish post-provisioning operations that the consumers can perform on
provisioned items.
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