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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

Advanced Service Designer overview


Advanced Service Designer is made up of the ASD provider, which does the work, and the ASD UI, which provides an interface for the administration and creation of the custom resources/blueprints and day 2 actions.

There are three main roles involved with Advanced Service Designer:

  • Tenant administrator: Responsible for adding the vRO endpoint so that it can be used by ASD

  • Service architect: Creates all the ASD Custom Resources/Blueprints and Day 2 Actions

  • Consumer/user: Consumes the ASD blueprints that have been published to the Catalog

The ASD provider mainly talks to the:

  • Catalog, either to initiate a request or provide information

  • vRO to invoke a workflow, which supports the service blueprint:

Advanced Service Designer provides a way for the service architects to create advanced custom services and publish them as catalog items. They can provide custom resource-types mapped to vRealize Orchestrator object-types and define them as items to be provisioned...