Creating an image profile
Image profiles are a set of vSphere Installation Bundles (VIBs), a collection of files packaged into a single archive to facilitate distribution and used to boot the ESXi hosts. Image profiles are built and made available in public depots by VMware and VMware partners. You can create custom image profiles, usually cloning an existing image profile and then adding required software packages VIBs to the image created.
To create an image profile, you should add at least one software depot but you can add multiple software depots. A software depot can be a structure of folders and files stored on an HTTP server (online depot) or, more commonly, in the form of a ZIP file (offline depot). The software depot contains the ...
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