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The policies are applied to items in an entitlement. You can apply them to services, catalog items, catalog
item components, or actions that require an approver to approve or reject a provisioning request.
When a service catalog user requests an item that includes one or more approval policies, the approval
request is sent to the approvers. If approved, the request moves forward. If rejected, the request is canceled
and the service catalog user is notied regarding the rejection.
Infrastructure as a Service
With Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), you can rapidly model and provision servers and desktops across
virtual and physical, private and public, or hybrid cloud infrastructures.
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Conguring Infrastructure Fabric on page 24
The IaaS administrator and fabric administrator roles are responsible for conguring the fabric to
enable provisioning of infrastructure services. Fabric conguration is system-wide and is shared
across all tenants.
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Infrastructure Source Endpoints on page 24
Infrastructure sources can include a group of virtualization compute resources or a cloud service
account.
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Compute Resources on page 25
A compute resource is an object that represents a host, host cluster, or pool in a virtualization
platform, a virtual datacenter, or an Amazon region on which machines can be provisioned.
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Data Collection on page 25
vRealize Automation collects data from infrastructure source endpoints and their compute resources.
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Fabric Groups on page 26
An IaaS administrator can organize virtualization compute resources and cloud endpoints into fabric
groups by type and intent. One or more fabric administrators manage the resources in each fabric
group.
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Business Groups on page 26
A business group associates a set of services and resources to a set of users, often corresponding to a
line of business, department, or other organizational unit.
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Machine Prexes on page 27
You use machine prexes to generate the names of provisioned machines. Machine prexes are shared
across all tenants.
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Resource Reservations on page 27
You can create a reservation to allocate provisioning resources in the fabric group to a specic business
group.
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Conguring Reservation Policies on page 28
When a user requests a machine, it can be provisioned on any reservation of the appropriate type that
has sucient capacity for the machine. You can apply a reservation policy to a blueprint to restrict the
machines provisioned from that blueprint to a subset of available reservations.
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Machine Blueprints on page 28
A blueprint that contains a machine component species the workow used to provision a machine
and includes information such as CPU, memory, and storage. Machine blueprints specify the
workow used to provision a machine and include additional provisioning information such as the
locations of required disk images or virtualization platform objects. Blueprints also specify policies
such as the lease period and can include networking and security components such as security groups,
policies, or tags.
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