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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
Blueprint authors can control many machine options, including provisioning methods, by configuring
blueprints for various types of infrastructure.
For a full list of supported infrastructure types and provisioning methods, see vRealize Automation
Support Matrix. For information about configuring infrastructure blueprints, see Configuring vRealize
Automation.
Configuring Business-Relevant Services
The vRealize Automation console enables administrators to configure business- and user-specific policies
through a web-based user interface without writing any code.
These business policies include entitlements and approvals for the service catalog, resource reservation
policies for infrastructure, and many others.
For information about customization tasks that you can perform through the vRealize Automation console,
see Configuring vRealize Automation.
Using custom properties, machine blueprint authors can define additional machine properties or override
their standard attributes for a variety of purposes.
For details about the use and configuration of custom properties, see Configuring vRealize Automation.
Extending vRealize Automation with Event-Based Workflows
You can use workflow subscriptions to run vRealize Orchestrator workflows based on events.
vRealize Automation provides event topics to which you can subscribe, triggering your custom
vRealize Orchestrator workflows when an IaaS resource is provisioned or modified.
For more information, see Life Cycle Extensibility.
Integrating with Third-Party Management Systems
Provisioning or decommissioning a new machine, especially for mission-critical systems, typically requires
interacting with a number of different management systems, including DNS servers, load balancers,
CMDBs, IP Address Management and other systems.
Administrators can inject custom logic (known as workflows) at various predetermined IaaS life cycle
stages. These IaaS workflows can call out to vRealize Orchestrator for bi-directional integration with
external management systems.
For details about machine life cycle extensibility, see Life Cycle Extensibility.
Adding New IT Services and Creating New Actions
The XaaS enables XaaS architects to define new services and new management operations on
provisioned resources.
vRealize Automation provides a range of management operations that you can perform on machines.
Your organization may find it valuable to extend the default IaaS machine menus with new options, such
as creating a machine backup or running a security check.
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