6.5.1

Working with Acceptance Levels
Hosts, image profiles, and individual VIBs have acceptance levels. VIB acceptance levels show how the
VIB was tested. Understanding what each acceptance level implies, how to change levels, and what a
change implies is an important part of installation and update procedures.
Acceptance levels are set for hosts, image profiles, and individual VIBs. The default acceptance level for
an ESXi image or image profile is PartnerSupported.
Host acceptance levels The host acceptance level determines which VIBs you can install on a host.
You can change a host's acceptance level with ESXCLI commands. By
default, ESXi hosts have an acceptance level of PartnerSupported to allow
for easy updates with PartnerSupported VIBs.
Note VMware supports hosts at the PartnerSupported acceptance level.
For problems with individual VIBs with PartnerSupported acceptance level,
contact your partner's support organization.
Image profile
acceptance levels
The image profile acceptance level is set to the lowest VIB acceptance
level in the image profile. If you want to add a VIB with a low acceptance
level to an image profile, you can change the image profile acceptance
level with the Set-EsxImageProfile cmdlet. See Set the Image Profile
Acceptance Level.
The vSphere Update Manager does not display the actual acceptance
level. Use vSphere ESXi Image Builder cmdlets to retrieve the acceptance
level information for VIBs and image profiles.
VIB acceptance levels A VIB's acceptance level is set when the VIB is created. Only the VIB
creator can set the acceptance level.
If you attempt to provision a host with an image profile or VIB that has a lower acceptance level than the
host, an error occurs. Change the acceptance level of the host to install the image profile or VIB. See
Change the Host Acceptance Level. Changing the acceptance level of the host changes the support level
for that host.
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