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Procedure
1 Navigate to Home > Auto Deploy.
By default, only the administrator role has privileges to use the vSphere Auto Deploy service.
2 On the Deployed Hosts tab, select an ESXi host.
3 Click Edit Image Profile Association.
The Edit Image Profile Association dialog box appears.
4 Edit the image profile association of the host.
Option Action
If you do not want to change the image profile Select the Same image profile check box.
If you want to assign a new image profile to the selected
hosts
1 Select the Browse for Image Profile check box.
2 Select a software depot from the drop-down menu.
3 Select an image profile from the list.
4 (Optional) If you want to bypass the acceptance level
verification for the image profile, select the Skip
image profile signature check check box.
5 Click OK.
Results
The new image profile is listed in the Associated Image Profile column after a refresh of the page.
What to do next
n View the host location, image profile, host profile, and added script bundles. See View Host
Associations.
n If the host is associated with a rule and you want to revert to the image profile defined in the
rule, remediate the host. See Remediate a Non-compliant Host.
Remediate a Non-compliant Host
When you add a rule to the vSphere Auto Deploy active rule set or make changes to one or more
rules, hosts are not updated automatically. You must remediate the host associations to apply the
new rules to the host.
Prerequisites
n Prepare your system and install the Auto Deploy Server. For more information, see Prepare
Your System for vSphere Auto Deploy.
n Create a vSphere Auto Deploy rule. See Create a Deploy Rule.
n Activate a vSphere Auto Deploy rule. See Activate, Deactivate, and Reorder Deploy Rules.
n If the remediation of a host, results in a change in its location, the host must be placed in
maintenance mode.
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