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Learning VMware vRealize Automation

By : SRIRAM RAJENDRAN, Sriram Rajendran
Book Image

Learning VMware vRealize Automation

By: SRIRAM RAJENDRAN, Sriram Rajendran

Overview of this book

With the growing interest in Software Defined Data Centers (SDDC), vRealize Automation offers data center users an organized service catalog and governance for administrators. This way, end users gain autonomy while the IT department stays in control, making sure security and compliance requirements are met. Learning what each component does and how they dovetail with each other will bolster your understanding of vRealize Automation. The book starts off with an introduction to the distributed architecture that has been tested and installed in large scale deployments. Implementing and configuring distributed architecture with custom certificates is unarguably a demanding task, and it will be covered next. After this, we will progress with the installation. A vRealize Automation blueprint can be prepared in multiple ways; we will focus solely on vSphere endpoint blueprint. After this, we will discuss the high availability configuration via NSX loadbalancer for vRealize Orchestrator. Finally, we end with Advanced Service Designer, which provides service architects with the ability to create advanced services and publish them as catalog items.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Learning VMware vRealize Automation
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Summary


Well, that brings us to a successful completion of configuring a guest operating system before it could be used for a vRealize Automation vSphere Blueprint!

While a blueprint varies based on the platform type, this chapter is focused on learning how to configure a vSphere template. We decided to spend some quality time here; otherwise, the deployment of a service catalog can be impacted if the configuration is flawed.

To recap, we have successfully installed all the nodes in the vRealize automation distributed architecture followed by a functional validation (phase 1). Now that we have learned how to configure a vSphere template for blueprint use, we will proceed to the next chapter and provision a service catalog and finish the second phase of validation.