6.5.1

Procedure
1 On the vSphere Web Client Home page, click Auto Deploy.
By default, only the Administrator role has privileges to use the vSphere ESXi Image Builder service.
2 On the Software Depots tab, select the software depot that contains the image profile that you want
to work with.
3 From the list of image profiles in the depot, select the image profile that you want to clone and click
Clone.
4 Enter an image profile name, vendor, and description.
You must enter a unique image profile name.
5 From the Software depot drop-down list, select in which custom depot to add the new image profile
and click Next.
6 (Optional) From the drop-down list, select an acceptance level for the image profile.
7 From the Available tab, select the VIBs that you want to add to the image profile and deselect the
ones that you want to remove.
You can view the VIBs that will be added to the image profile from the Selected tab. You can filter the
VIBs by software depot from the Software depot drop-down list on the Available tab.
Note The image profile must contain a bootable ESXi image to be valid.
8 Click Next.
vSphere ESXi Image Builder verifies that the change does not invalidate the profile. Some VIBs
depend on other VIBs and become invalid if you include them in an image profile separately. When
you add or remove a VIB, vSphere ESXi Image Builder checks whether the package dependencies
are met.
9 On the Ready to complete page, review the summary information for the new image profile and click
Finish.
What to do next
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You can associate an image profile with a new vSphere Auto Deploy rule to provision ESXi hosts.
See Create a Deploy Rule or Clone a Deploy Rule.
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You can associate an image profile with an ESXi host. See Add a Host to the vSphere Auto Deploy
Inventory.
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Edit the Image Profile Association of a Host.
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