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Prerequisites
n Prepare your system and install the Auto Deploy Server. For more information, see Prepare
Your System for vSphere Auto Deploy.
n To assign an image profile to the host, add the software depot that you need to the inventory.
See Add a Software Depot or Import a Software Depot.
Procedure
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 Discovered Hosts tab, select one or more hosts that you want to provision with a host
location, image profile, and host profile.
3 Select Add to Inventory.
Alternatively, click Remove to dismiss the selected hosts from the Discovered Hosts tab.
The Add to Inventory wizard appears.
4 On the Select host location page of the wizard, select a data center, folder, or cluster as host
location for the hosts that match the rule.
5 On the Select image profile page of the wizard, use the drop-down menu to select a software
depot and choose an image profile from the list.
If you want to bypass the acceptance level verification for the image profile, select the Skip
image profile signature check check box.
6 On the Select host profile page of the wizard, select a host profile from the list.
7 On the Select host profile page of the wizard, use the Filter to search the host profiles list or
select the Do not include a host profile check box to continue without adding a host profile.
8 On the Select script bundle page of the wizard, select a script bundle from the list.
9 On the Ready to complete page, review the selected host associations.
What to do next
n Edit a vSphere Auto Deploy rule. See Edit an Image Profile.
n Clone a vSphere Auto Deploy rule. See Clone a Deploy Rule
n View the host location, image profile, host profile, and added script bundles. See View Host
Associations.
n Remediate non-compliant hosts. See Remediate a Non-compliant Host.
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