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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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Creating deployment rules

Deployment rules are used to link the image profiles to hosts and VIBs defined in a specific image profile. To make an image profile available to hosts, VIBs are copied to the Auto Deploy server to be accessible from hosts.

To start provisioning hosts through Auto Deploy, you should define a deployment rule to apply. To create a new deployment rule, proceed with these steps:

  1. Select the Deploy Rules tab and click on the New Deploy Rule icon. Enter a name in the Name field and specify to which hosts the rule should apply. If you want to apply the rule only to specific hosts, select one or more patterns that the hosts should match. In the example, we want to install the host with the IP address 172.16.1.253, previously ...
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