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Service Catalog Overview
The service catalog provides a unied self-service portal for consuming IT services. Users can browse the
catalog to request items they need, track their requests, and manage their provisioned items.
Service architects and administrators can dene new services and publish them to the common catalog.
When dening a service, the architect can specify the kind of item that can be requested, and what options
are available to the consumer as part of submiing the request.
Group managers or line-of-business administrators can specify business policies such as who is entitled to
request specic catalog items or perform specic actions on provisioned items. They can also apply
congurable approval policies to catalog requests.
Users responsible for managing the catalog, such as tenant administrators and service architects, can
manage the presentation of catalog items to the consumers of IT services, for example by grouping items
into service categories for easier navigation and highlighting new services to consumers on the portal home
page.
vRealize Business Standard Edition Overview
With vRealize Business Standard Edition, directors of cloud operations can monitor their expenditures and
design more cost-ecient cloud services.
vRealize Business Standard Edition provides the following benets:
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Drives accountability by providing visibility into the cost of virtual infrastructure and public cloud
providers.
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Promotes eciencies in the virtual infrastructure by making it possible to compare the costs, eciency,
and availability of their private cloud with public cloud providers and industry benchmark data.
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Optimizes decisions about placement for virtual workloads and tradeos between buying new
hardware and using public cloud providers.
For more information about vRealize Business Standard Edition, see the vRealize Business Standard Edition
documentation set.
Tenancy and User Roles
vRealize Automation supports multiple tenants in the same installation. Users always log in and perform
their tasks in a specic tenant. Some administrator roles can manage conguration that aects multiple
tenants.
Tenancy Overview
A tenant is an organizational unit in a vRealize Automation deployment. A tenant can represent a business
unit in an enterprise or a company that subscribes to cloud services from a service provider.
Each tenant has its own dedicated conguration. Some system-level conguration is shared across tenants.
Foundations and Concepts
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