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You're reading from VMware vSphere 6.5 Cookbook Over 140 task-oriented recipes to install, configure, manage, and orchestrate various VMware vSphere 6.5 components

Product type Paperback

Published in Jan 2018

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781787127418

Length 574 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

Tools

vSphere

Concepts

Cloud Computing

Authors (3):

Abhilash G B

Meyenburg

Rajendran

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Table of Contents (22) Chapters

Title Page

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Contributors

Preface

1. Upgrading to vSphere 6.5 FREE CHAPTER

2. Greenfield Deployment of vSphere 6.5

3. Using vSphere Host Profiles

4. Using ESXi Image Builder

5. Using vSphere Auto Deploy

6. Using vSphere Standard Switches

7. Using vSphere Distributed Switches

8. Creating and Managing VMFS Datastore

9. Managing Access to the iSCSI and NFS Storage

10. Storage IO Control, Storage DRS, and Profile Driven Storage

11. Creating and Managing Virtual Machines

12. Configuring vSphere 6.5 High Availability

13. Configuring vSphere DRS, DPM, and VMware EVC

14. Upgrading and Patching using vSphere Update Manager

15. Using vSphere Certificate Manager Utility

16. Using vSphere Management Assistant

17. Performance Monitoring in a vSphere Environment

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Importing a software depot

The very first step before you can create, clone, or manage image profiles, is to present the VMware ESXi Image Builder with a software depot. As introduced at the beginning of the chapter, a software depot is nothing but an ESXi offline bundle presented to the Image Builder.

How to do it...

The following procedure will guide you through the steps involved in importing a software depot from an offline bundle:

Log in to the vSphere Web Client and navigate to the Auto Deploy plugin screen.
On the Auto Deploy screen, navigate to the Software Depots tab and click on the
icon to bring up the Import Software Depot window:

On the Import Software Depot window, supply a Name for the depot and click Browse... to locate and select the ESXi65_OfflineBundle. With the offline bundle selected, click Upload to begin uploading the package to the Auto Deploy server: