Chapter 8. The Power of Advanced Service Designer (ASD)

So far, we have dealt with Infrastructure as a Service (a.k.a. IaaS) where we utilized the capability of vRealize Automation to provision a machine, perform day-to-day operations, and so on. If you would like to create a customized service along with the IaaS service that is available in vRA, a new powerful feature called Advanced Service Designer (ASD) is your answer. It also provides the ability to create Anything as a Service (XaaS) by exposing the service blueprint to customers utilizing the power of vRealize Orchestrator (vRO).

ASD is a part of vRA that allows you to extend IaaS operations, as well as provide service offerings to users. It works with vRO and basically anything that ...

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