So far, we have dealt with Infrastructure as a Service (a.k.a. IaaS) where we utilized the capability of vRealize Automation to provision a machine, perform day-to-day operations, and so on. If you would like to create a customized service along with the IaaS service that is available in vRA, a new powerful feature called Advanced Service Designer (ASD) is your answer. It also provides the ability to create Anything as a Service (XaaS) by exposing the service blueprint to customers utilizing the power of vRealize Orchestrator (vRO).
ASD is a part of vRA that allows you to extend IaaS operations, as well as provide service offerings to users. It works with vRO and basically anything that vRO can do, can be made available to the user through their catalog.
You can consider vRA as a waiter taking orders from the user, and the catalog is the menu. Once the user has made their selection, it is sent to the cook (vRO) to perform the work and...