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For a full list of supported infrastructure types and provisioning methods, see vRealize Automation Support
Matrix. For information about conguring infrastructure blueprints, see Conguring vRealize Automation.
Configuring Business-Relevant Services
The vRealize Automation console enables administrators to congure business- and user-specic 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 Conguring vRealize Automation.
Using custom properties, machine blueprint authors can dene additional machine properties or override
their standard aributes for a variety of purposes.
For details about the use and conguration of custom properties, see Conguring vRealize Automation.
Extending vRealize Automation with Event-Based Workflows
You can use workow subscriptions to run vRealize Orchestrator workows based on events.
vRealize Automation provides event topics to which you can subscribe, triggering your custom
vRealize Orchestrator workows when an IaaS resource is provisioned or modied.
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 dierent management systems, including DNS servers, load balancers,
CMDBs, IP Address Management and other systems.
Administrators can inject custom logic (known as workows) at various predetermined IaaS life cycle
stages. These IaaS workows 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 dene 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 nd it valuable to extend the default IaaS machine menus with new options, such as
creating a machine backup or running a security check.
It can also be benecial to expose entirely new services in the service catalog, so that users can automate
other initiatives directly via the portal. Service architects can create XaaS blueprints for storage-as-a-service,
networking services or virtually any kind of IT service by using XaaS.
For details about how to create new catalog items, see Conguring vRealize Automation.
Foundations and Concepts
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