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See Clone a Deploy Rule or Editing a Deploy Rule.
10 Activate the new rule and deactivate the old one.
See Activate, Deactivate, and Reorder Deploy Rules.
11 Remediate the host associations to apply the new rule to the host.
See Remediate a Non-compliant Host.
12 Verify that the hosts you provisioned meet the following requirements.
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Each host is connected to the vCenter Server system.
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The hosts are not in maintenance mode.
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The hosts have no compliance failures.
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Each host with a host profile that requires user input has up-to-date host customization
information.
Remediate host associations and compliance problems and reboot hosts until all hosts meet the
requirements.
Read for an introduction to the boot process, differences between first and subsequent boots, and an
overview of using host customization.
Overview of the vSphere Auto Deploy Process by Using PowerCLI
Getting started with vSphere Auto Deploy requires that you learn how vSphere Auto Deploy works, install
the vSphere Auto Deploy server, install PowerCLI, write PowerCLI rules that provision hosts, and power
on your hosts to be booted with the image profile you specify. You can customize of the image profile,
host profile, and vCenter Server location.
See Set Up vSphere Auto Deploy and Provision Hosts with vSphere PowerCLI for a step-by-step
exercise that helps you set up your first vSphere Auto Deploy environment on a Windows Server 2008
system.
To provision the hosts in your environment with vSphere Auto Deploy successfully, you can follow these
steps.
1 Install vCenter Server and the vCenter Server components, or deploy the vCenter Server Appliance.
The vSphere Auto Deploy server is included with the management node.
2 Configure the vSphere Auto Deploy service startup type.
See Prepare Your System for vSphere Auto Deploy.
3 Install PowerCLI, which includes vSphere Auto Deploy and vSphere ESXi Image Builder cmdlets.
See Prepare Your System for vSphere Auto Deploy and Using vSphere Auto Deploy Cmdlets.
4 Find the image profile that includes the VIBs that you want to deploy to your hosts.
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In most cases, you add the depots containing the required software to your PowerCLI session,
and then select an image profile from one of those depots.
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