VMware ESXi 5.0 Installation and RWC2 Tips and Tricks White Paper

ESXi 5.0 Related RAID Operations
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Figure 29. VMware vSphere PowerCLI
2. Type the command $DefaultSoftwareDepots
This command is used to show the current default software depots, if the VMware vSphere
PowerCLI is newly opened, it will returns nothing.
Figure 30. DefaultSoftwareDepots
3. Type the command Add-EsxSoftwareDepots –DepotUrl
C:\test\ESXi\VMware-ESXi-5.0.0-469512-depot.zip (the directory of “C:\test\ESXi\...”
needs to be modified to the actual directory that user copies the zip file to)
This command is used to add the ESXi 5.0 installation depot to the current image builder
Image Profile , and it will return the information of the image profile.