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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
- Index
Foundations and Concepts
VMware vRealize ™ Automation provides a secure portal where authorized administrators, developers, or
business users can request new IT services. In addition, they can manage specic cloud and IT resources that
enable IT organizations to deliver services that can be congured to their lines of business in a self-service
catalog.
This documentation describes the features and capabilities of vRealize Automation. It includes information
about the following subjects:
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vRealize Automation components
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Common service catalog
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Infrastructure as a Service
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XaaS
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Software
For information about cost management for VMware vRealize ™ Automation, see the documentation for
VMware vRealize ™ Business ™ Standard Edition.
Note Not all features and capabilities of vRealize Automation are available in all editions. For a
comparison of feature sets in each edition, see hps://www.vmware.com/products/vrealize-automation/.
Intended Audience
This information is intended for anyone who needs to familiarize themselves with the features and
capabilities of vRealize Automation.
VMware Technical Publications Glossary
VMware Technical Publications provides a glossary of terms that might be unfamiliar to you. For denitions
of terms as they are used in VMware technical documentation, go to
hp://www.vmware.com/support/pubs.
Using Scenarios
You can use scenarios to build working samples of vRealize Automation functionality that you can learn
from or customize to suit your needs.
Scenarios walk you through the most common and simplied workow to complete a vRealize Automation
task. They do not contain options or choices, and serve as introductory examples to both basic and advanced
vRealize Automation functionality.
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