The service catalog is the central element of each cloud environment. Based on the use cases identified it will provide the needed functionality to empower the business and speed up deployment. This will enhance the time to market significantly and enable the whole company to be able to react to market trends faster.
But to enable all these benefits, it is important to understand that this can only be accomplished if the services offered in the catalog are valid and needed by the end users.
This chapter will discuss the service catalog creation, different types of service catalogs, as well as detailed examples of simple and complex service designs.
Also, it will cover in detail how service catalogs are created in vRA and how they can be assigned to a specific business group or tenant, but also be available across different tenants. The later option is necessary if some very basic services might be worth sharing. An example for such service catalogs can be...