Re: Auto Deploy vSphere ESXi 5.1

nguyenhungsonuit wrote:

 

Dear all,

 

When I create an image profile and assign it to Auto Deploy. I add a network based software depot instead for adding "offline depot" from Vmware.

I use cmdlet: Add-EsxSoftwareDepot https://hostupdate.vmware.com/software/VUM/PRODUCTION/main/vmw-depot-index.xml

I built a base image : New-DeployRule –Name “Test” –Item “ESXi-5.0.0-799733-standard” –Pattern “model=VMware Virtual Platform”

Then active the depot rule: Add-DeployRule -DeployRule Test

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But when I boot ESXi host, the host display "there are no ESXi image associated with this host

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I don't know this problem. Please give me some suggestion to resolve that.

 

Many thanks.

I believe you are missing a step.  Once you add the ESXSoftwareDepot, you should then extract the image profile from the depot to a new Image Profile object, and add a Deploy Rule for the Image Profile.

For Example:

Add-EsxSoftwareDepot https://hostupdate.vmware.com/software/VUM/PRODUCTION/main/vmw-depot-index.xml

New-ESXImageProfile -CloneProfile "ESXi-5.0.0-799733-standard" -name "MyImage"

new-deployrule -name "MyImageRule" -item "MyImage"  -allhosts

add-deployrule -deployrule "MyImageRule"

You can add deploy rules to assign hosts to a specific cluster, or use patterns to match certain hosts, as you probably know already.