- VMware vSphere 6.5 Cookbook(Third Edition)
- Abhilash GB Cedric Rajendran
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- 2025-02-18 00:43:34
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You can also use ESXi Image Builder CLI to clone an image profile. Unlike the GUI method, you are not required to create a custom depot for this activity. In this case, the VMware PowerCLI session becomes the work desk for this activity:
- Launch a VMware PowerCLI session.
- Use the Add-SoftwareDepot command to import an offline bundle. The command requires you to provide the path to an offline depot or the URL of the online repository.
- Define an array variable to hold the output of the command Get-EsxImageProfile.
- List the contents of the array variable to verify it has the desired content.
- Use the New-EsxImageProfile command to create a new image profile by cloning the desired image profile. Use the array[n] representation to address the correct image profile.
- Run the Get-EsxImageProfile command to list all the image profiles. You should see the newly created image profiles:
