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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
vRealize Automation provides a secure portal where authorized administrators, developers or business
users can request new IT services and manage specific cloud and IT resources, while ensuring
compliance with business policies. Requests for IT service, including infrastructure, applications,
desktops, and many others, are processed through a common service catalog to provide a consistent
user experience.
You can improve cost control by using vRealize Automation to monitor resource and capacity usage. For
further cost control management, you can integrate vRealize Business Advanced or Enterprise Edition
with your vRealize Automation instance to expose the cost of cloud and virtual machine resources, and
help you better manage capacity, cost, and efficiency.
Providing On-Demand Services to Users Overview
You can use the IaaS, Software, and XaaS features of vRealize Automation to model custom on-demand
IT services and deliver them to your users through the vRealize Automation common service catalog.
Catalog items can range in complexity from a single, simple machine with no guest operating system to
complex custom application stacks delivered on multiple machine under a load balancer.
You can create and publish blueprints for a single machine, or a single custom XaaS resource, but you
can also combine machine blueprints and XaaS blueprints with other building blocks to design elaborate
application blueprints that include multiple machines, networking and security, software with full life cycle
support, and custom XaaS functionality. Because all published blueprints and blueprint components are
reusable, you can create a library of these components and combine them in new blueprints to deliver
increasingly complex on-demand services.
Published blueprints become catalog items that your service catalog administrators can deliver to your
users. The service catalog provides a unified self-service portal for consuming IT services. Service
catalog administrators can manage user access to catalog services, items, and actions by using
entitlements and approvals, and users can browse the catalog to request items they need, track their
requests, and manage their provisioned items.
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