You can add ESXi hosts to the vSphere Auto Deploy inventory and create, monitor, and manage the vSphere Auto Deploy rules and ESXi host associations by using the vSphere Web Client .
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Create a Deploy Rule ESXi hosts with vSphere Auto Deploy, you must create rules that assign image profiles, host profiles, and host locations to the hosts. An ESXi host can match more than one vSphere Auto Deploy rule criteria, when this is the case, the rule order is considered. Clone a Deploy Rule Editing a Deploy Rule Activate, Deactivate, and Reorder Deploy Rules View Host Associations ESXi hosts are compliant with the active rule set, you must check the host associations compliance. Edit the Image Profile Association of a Host Remediate a Non-compliant Host Add a Host to the vSphere Auto Deploy Inventory
