vRealize Automation and vRealize Orchestration Concepts

 What is XaaS and how can you use it with VRO?

XaaS (Anything as a service) uses VRO workflows and you can create XaaS catalogs via using existing workflows in VRO  via VRA GUI web portal.

What are the specific roles associated with VRealize Business Management?

There are 3 roles required for admin/BG manager to be able to use Business Management tab in VRA.

• Business Management Administrator
• Business Management Controller
• Business Management Read Only

What is the role of vRA guest agents? How do you use it in provisioning a VM?

We can use vRA guest agent to make the following customizations on deployed machines:

• Change the IP address
• Add or format drives
• Run scripts

What Are Service Catalogs?

Published blueprints are service catalogs. You can publish catalog items and add them to service categories. 

What Is The Importance Of Business Groups And How Are These Used?

You use business groups along with reservation which is percentage of compute resources reserved from the endpoint say CPU, RAM and data store from a VSphere Cluster.

Business groups are also used with entitlements because if a user is not part of a business group, you cannot entitle him to deploy a blueprint via service catalog.

What Is Fabric And Endpoints?

Infrastructure endpoints form the core of the fabric. From the fabric, you get resources. Endpoints examples are VSphere, Hyper-V/SCVMM, AWS Cloud endpoint, Vcloud director, Storage endpoints such as Netapp, IPAM endpoints for providing Ips etc.

What Is A Cloud Client And Its Use?

It is a CLI utility. Cloud client is used for importing/exporting VRA blueprints. You can do the same things as you can do via GUI using cloud client.

What Is Network Profile?

Network profiles provide Virtual machines with information such as IP address, net mask, gateway, DNS, DNS suffix etc. You can associate network profile via reservation.