Every installation needs to be functionally validated before approving the acceptance of the configuration. To summarize, the earlier chapters assisted us in successfully installing the vRealize automation distributed setup. Nevertheless, we are not done until we functionally corroborate whether the setup is operational. This chapter will talk about how to prepare the environment and then execute the functional test.
We will look at how to create a service catalog item before the user deploys it via the vRA self-service portal. If the deployment is successful, we can be assured that we are headed in the right direction. I also wanted to highlight the list of topics that will be discussed in this chapter:
Providing the required permissions in the vSphere Endpoint
Creating and configuring credentials
Configuring a vSphere Endpoint
Login validation
Configuring fabric groups
Configuring a machine prefix
Creating business groups
Configuring...