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Clone an Image Profile
You can use the vSphere Client to clone image profiles. You can clone an image profile when you
want to make small changes to the VIB list in a profile, or if you want to use hosts from different
vendors and want to use the same basic profile, but want to add vendor-specific VIBs.
Prerequisites
n Verify that the vSphere ESXi Image Builder service is enabled and running. See Configure the
vSphere ESXi Image Builder.
n Add or import a software depot to the vSphere ESXi Image Builder inventory. See Add a
Software Depot and Import a Software Depot.
n Verify that there is at least one custom depot in the vSphere ESXi Image Builder inventory.
Procedure
1 Navigate to Home > Auto Deploy.
By default, only the administrator role has privileges to use the vSphere ESXi Image Builder
service.
2 On the Software Depots tab, use the drop-down menu to 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 menu, select in which custom depot to add the new
image profile.
6 Click Next.
The Select software packages page appears.
7 From the drop-down menu, select an acceptance level for the image profile.
The acceptance level of the VIBs you add to the base image must be at least as high as the
level of the base image. If you add a VIB with a lower acceptance level to the image profile,
you must lower the image profile acceptance level. For more information, see Working with
Acceptance Levels.
8 Select the VIBs that you want to add to the image profile and deselect the ones that you want
to remove, and click Next.
Note The image profile must contain a bootable ESXi image to be valid.
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