You can view the hosts that do not match any vSphere Auto Deploy rule and manually add a host to the vSphere Auto Deploy inventory.
To add a host to the current vSphere Auto Deploy inventory of deployed hosts, you can create a new rule or edit an existing rule to include a host that is not deployed with vSphere Auto Deploy and associate it with a specific image profile, host profile and location. Alternatively, you can add a host manually to the inventory by assigning to it an image profile, host profile, and location.
Prerequisites
- Prepare your system and install the Auto Deploy Server. For more information, see Prepare Your System for vSphere Auto Deploy.
- To assign an image profile to the host, add the software depot that you need to the inventory. See Add a Software Depot or Import a Software Depot.
What to do next
- Edit a vSphere Auto Deploy rule. See Editing a Deploy Rule.
- View the image profile, host profile, and location associations of a host. See View Host Associations.
- Remediate non-compliant hosts. See Remediate a Non-compliant Host.
