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Building VMware Software-Defined Data Centers

You're reading from   Building VMware Software-Defined Data Centers Make the most of software-defined data centers with revolutionary VMware technologies

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2016
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ISBN-13 9781786464378
Length 358 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. The Software-Defined Data Center FREE CHAPTER 2. Identify Automation and Standardization Opportunities 3. VMware vSphere: The SDDC Foundation 4. SDDC Design Considerations 5. VMware vRealize Automation 6. vRealize Orchestrator 7. Service Catalog Creation 8. Network Virtualization using NSX 9. DevOps Considerations 10. Capacity Management with vRealize Operations 11. Troubleshooting and Monitoring 12. Continuous Improvement

Service catalog creation in vRA


This part of the chapter will describe in detail how to create and manage a service catalog in vRealize Automation. Based on the previous descriptions it will create a sample catalog and explain how to populate it with service. Also, multimachine and PaaS service will be described in more details.

First step: Creating the catalog

In vRealize Automation, the service catalog creation is done under the Administration tab. This tab is only visible for either a service administrator, tenant administrator or for the vRA system administrator. To start with the catalog creation, it is important to have a user with the relevant privileges for it.

  1. Open vRealize Automation in a browser, log on with a privileged user and click on the Administration tab.

  2. In the right-hand menu select Catalog Management. This will open another menu where four possible selections are presented:

    • Services: This menu contains the actual catalogs or category names in vRA. In here, new categories...

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