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The Complete VMware vSphere Guide
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The Complete VMware vSphere Guide

by Mike Brown, Hersey Cartwright, Martin Gavanda, Andrea Mauro, Karel Novak, Paolo Valsecchi
November 2019
Beginner content levelBeginner
768 pages
32h 29m
English
Packt Publishing
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How to do it…

Third-party drivers are packaged as vSphere Installation Bundles (VIBs). A VIB file is similar to a ZIP archive, in that it is a single file that includes an archive of the driver files, an XML descriptor file, and a signature file. VIB files have the .vib file extension.

The required drivers can be installed after ESXi has been installed using the esxcli command:

esxcli software vib install -v <path to vib package>

When installing from a bundle or ZIP file, the following esxcli command can be used:

esxcli software vib install -d <full path to vib zip bundle>

A custom ESXi image can also be created by using the Image Builder tools that are included with PowerCLI. PowerCLI can be downloaded from https://www.vmware.com/support/developer/PowerCLI/ ...

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