If you are deploying stateless ESXi hosts using vSphere Auto Deploy, then you should be packaging the vSphere HA FDM VIB into the image profile; otherwise, you won't be able to enable HA on the auto-deployed hosts.
The following procedure will guide you through the steps required in adding the FDM VIB to the image profile:
Use the cmdlet
Connect-VIServer
to add the vCenter server to the PowerCLI session:Connect-VIServer -Server vcenterhost001 -User Administrator -Password pass123
Add the ESXi offline bundle to the session:
Add-EsxSoftwareDepot -DepotUrl C:\Offline-Bundles\VMware-ESXi-5.5.0-1331820-depot.zip
Add the vSphere HA depot to the session. The vSphere HA depot is at
http://IP or FQDN of the vCenterhost/vSphere-HA-depot
:Add-EsxSoftwareDepot http://vcenterhost001/vSphere-HA-depot
Clone and create a new image profile to customize. Read the recipe Creating an image profile by cloning a predefined profile for instructions.
Add the FDM...