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Books Video icon An illustration of two cells of a film strip. The tool is accessed via the vSphere Web client. Using the vSphere Web client, select Administration 2 from the Home 1 menu.

Click on System Configuration and then select Services. Select both services 4 , one at a time, and click on the play button 5 to start them. Once you make sure that both services are running, log off and log in back again using the vSphere client.

You should now see the Auto Deploy icon displayed on the Home screen. Before moving, let me go over the various components we will be working with while using Image Builder. The reiterate, the goal here is to create a customized ESXi ISO image containing the latest patches and a custom firewall rule that is required by the Altaro Backup software.

The Auto Deploy icon becomes visible once you start the required services and log in back in vSphere Web client.

For this post, I downloaded the ESXi 6. To upload the ESXi image patch in this case to the custom depot, click on the Import Software Depot icon 1 and navigate to the folder containing the image 2.

Press Upload to write the image to the depot. I want to add the custom firewall rule I covered in the How to create persistent firewall rules on ESXi post. Extract the downloaded utility. Use an administrative command shell to run vib2zip. Select the location where the zip file offline bundle is created. This is used to populate the remaining fields. I had to add Altaro to the Vendor Code field, this being a mandatory value.

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VMware's Announcements From earlier today: added Jul 28 , another closely related post Don't forget to check out the deeply technical overview by Jeff Hunter and others over at StorageHub. While all that goes into such efforts is well beyond the scope of this article, a great place to get started appears here: My vSphere 6.

I'm hoping for updates to that program soon, stay tuned. VCSA baby!