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Contents
Foundations and Concepts 5
Using Scenarios 5
Using the Goal Navigator 6
Introducing vRealize Automation 6
Providing On-Demand Services to Users Overview 6
vRealize Business Standard Edition Overview 10
Tenancy and User Roles 10
Tenancy Overview 10
User Roles Overview 15
Service Catalog 20
Requesting and Managing Items in the Catalog 20
Creating and Publishing Catalog Items 21
Services for the Service Catalog 21
Catalog Items 21
Actions 22
Entitlements 22
Approval Policies 22
Infrastructure as a Service 23
Conguring Infrastructure Fabric 24
Infrastructure Source Endpoints 24
Compute Resources 25
Data Collection 25
Fabric Groups 26
Business Groups 26
Machine Prexes 27
Resource Reservations 27
Conguring Reservation Policies 28
Machine Blueprints 28
Machine Leases and Reclamation 29
Scaling and Reconguring Deployments 30
XaaS Blueprints and Resource Actions 31
Creating XaaS Blueprints and Actions 31
Custom Resources 32
Resource Mappings 32
XaaS Blueprints 32
Resource Actions 32
Designing Forms for XaaS Blueprints and Actions 33
Common Components 33
Notications 33
Branding 35
Life Cycle Extensibility 35
vRealize Automation Extensibility Options 35
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