All the predefined image profiles available in an offline bundle are read-only. To customize such image profiles, you will need to clone them to form new image profiles. In this recipe, we will learn how to create a new image profile by cloning a predefined image profile.
The following procedure will guide you through the steps required to clone a predefined ESXi image profile available from an ESXi offline bundle.
It is a three-step process:
Adding an ESXi software depot.
Listing available ESXi image profiles.
Cloning a predefined ESXi image profile to form a new one.
The metadata of an ESXi offline bundle will have the definitions for the predefined image profiles contained in it. To be able to use the image profiles available in an offline bundle, it needs to be presented to a vSphere PowerCLI session as a software depot, which is nothing but PowerCLI's term for an offline bundle. The procedure...