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You can provision infrastructure using predefined catalog items. A catalog defines parameters, such as the cloud name and the group name to which the infrastructure is bound. Your administrator can create custom folders and catalog items, and can specify a user group or specific users who can view the folders or catalogs. Your administrator can also give you permissions to create catalog items.
The following folders are available by default. You cannot edit or delete them.
By default, the catalogs display in a tile view format. You can toggle in the upper right corner to display the catalogs in a list view format.
You can view additional details about a catalog item by clicking the row with the catalog item and clicking View Details.
Standard catalog items are used for generic service requests, such as creating service requests for VM provisioning using images from a list of clouds.
Advanced catalog items are used for orchestration workflow execution. You can execute workflow catalog items that have been provisioned by your administrator.
Service container catalog items are used for application container VM provisioning.
Bare metal catalog items are used for workflow execution of a bare metal server. You can execute a catalog item with a bare metal server provisioning policy that has been defined by your administrator.
You can run a deployability assessment on a standard catalog item to assess the deployable hosts. The report displays if a host is deployable or not and lists any reasons for exclusion. You can create a deployability assessment report on all configured VDCs or on selected VDCs.
The administrator should have enabled the Allow Deployability Assessment permission for your role for you to perform this action.