Choosing an ESXi Image to deploy

The Offline Bundle presented to the Auto Deploy server, using the Add-ESXSoftwareDepot command, may contain more than one image of ESXi. We need to identify the required image and select it for use.

How to do it…

The following steps will help you list all the available Image Profiles and assign them to different variables:

1. Display all the images currently detected by the Auto Deploy server by issuing the following command:

   Get-EsxImageProfile
   

   

2. The Image Profile list generated by the Get-ESXImageProfle command can be assigned to a VMware PowerCLI array variable by issuing the following command:

   $imageprofile=Get-EsxImageProfile
   

3. The array variable imageprofile now holds an array of ESXi Image Profile elements. Each of the elements in the array can be individually addressed using the array element number starting with zero(0).

   The following command will display array elements 0 and 1:

   $imageprofile[0].name
   $imageprofile[1].name
   

   

From the output of the preceding command...