6.5.1

Test and Repair Rule Compliance
When you add a rule to the vSphere Auto Deploy rule set or make changes to one or more rules, hosts
are not updated automatically. vSphere Auto Deploy applies the new rules only when you test their rule
compliance and perform remediation.
Prerequisites
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Prepare your system for vSphere Auto Deploy. For more information, see vSphere Installation and
Setup.
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Verify that your infrastructure includes one or more ESXi hosts provisioned with vSphere Auto Deploy,
and that the host on which you installed PowerCLI can access those ESXi hosts.
Procedure
1 In a PowerCLI session, run the Connect-VIServer cmdlet to connect to the vCenter Server system
that vSphere Auto Deploy is registered with.
Connect-VIServer ipv4_or_ipv6_address
The cmdlet might return a server certificate warning. In a production environment, make sure no
server certificate warnings result. In a development environment, you can ignore the warning.
2 Use PowerCLI to check which vSphere Auto Deploy rules are currently available.
Get-DeployRule
The system returns the rules and the associated items and patterns.
3 Make a change to one of the available rules.
For example, you can change the image profile and the name of the rule.
Copy-DeployRule -DeployRule testrule -ReplaceItem MyNewProfile
You cannot edit a rule already added to the active rule set. Instead, you can copy the rule and replace
the item or pattern you want to change.
4 Verify that you can access the host for which you want to test rule set compliance.
Get-VMHost -Name MyEsxi42
5 Run the cmdlet that tests rule set compliance for the host, and bind the return value to a variable for
later use.
$tr = Test-DeployRuleSetCompliance MyEsxi42
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