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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
You can create and publish blueprints for a single machine, or a single custom XaaS resource, but you can
also combine machine blueprints and XaaS blueprints with other building blocks to design elaborate
application blueprints that include multiple machines, networking and security, software with full life cycle
support, and custom XaaS functionality. Because all published blueprints and blueprint components are
reusable, you can create a library of these components and combine them in new blueprints to deliver
increasingly complex on-demand services.
Published blueprints become catalog items that your service catalog administrators can deliver to your
users. The service catalog provides a unied self-service portal for consuming IT services. Service catalog
administrators can manage user access to catalog services, items, and actions by using entitlements and
approvals, and users can browse the catalog to request items they need, track their requests, and manage
their provisioned items.
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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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