Summary

The primary purpose of this chapter was to explain the detailed steps involved in creating a vRealize Orchestrator cluster behind an NSX load balancer. Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) represents the deployment and life cycle management of server workloads—whether they are a traditional vSphere virtual machine in an organization's internal private cloud, a cloud workload in VMware vCloud Air, Microsoft Azure, Amazon Workspace Services, or another provider, or even physical servers. Anything as a Service (XaaS) represents virtually anything else that isn't IaaS. vRO enables XaaS inside vRA. The relationship between the two works like this—vRA is the request and approval portal, vRO is the orchestration engine.

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