Software Configuration Management for vRealize Automation
vRealize Automation SaltStack Config is a powerful software configuration management capability available in vRealize Automation. Easily define optimized, compliant software states and enforce them across your entire environment—virtualized, hybrid or public cloud—with powerful, intuitive configuration automation.
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Gain Efficiency
Automate redundant configuration tasks and free up scarce human resources for high-value initiatives.
Accelerate Delivery
Enact change immediately at massive scale across your entire IT footprint.
Improve Performance
Create self-healing systems that detect configuration drift and auto-remediate before downstream users are impacted.
Use Cases for vRealize Automation SaltStack Config
Deploy and Configure Anywhere
- Easily deploy across virtualized, hybrid, and public cloud environments.
- Create simple, human-readable infrastructure-as-code to provision and configure systems and software anywhere in your environment.
- Configure and control all of your operating systems with abstracted management for Linux, Windows, MacOS, and Unix.
- Automatically enforce desired state across your entire IT footprint.
Maintain and Control Your Infrastructure
- Manage virtual, public, and private cloud VMs with powerful automation and orchestration.
- Control your entire data center with flexible agent, agentless, and API-based management options.
- Keep critical software up to date with event-driven updates.
- Audit and understand the configuration state of your entire ecosystem quickly and easily.
Build Self-Healing Systems
- Leverage the Salt event-driven automation engine to define the state of a system and auto-remediate as soon as drift occurs.
- Create fully automated or semi-autonomous workflows that can notify administrators via third-party integrations or even create ITSM tickets when systems need attention.
- Perform advanced patching and maintenance with event-driven orchestration.
- Enact change immediately across your entire fleet with fast, scalable remote execution.