Managing vSphere Auto Deploy with the vSphere Client

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You can add ESXi hosts to the vSphere Auto Deploy inventory, create, monitor, and manage rules, and host associations by using the vSphere Client.

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Create a Deploy Rule
Before you provision ESXi hosts with vSphere Auto Deploy, you must create rules that assign host locations, image profiles, and host profiles 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
You can use a vSphere Auto Deploy rule as a template and modify only parts of the rule instead of creating a new one.
Edit a Deploy Rule
You can edit the name of an Auto Deploy rule, its matching hosts, the host location, the image profile, and the host profile if the rule is inactive in the inventory.
Activate, Deactivate, and Reorder Deploy Rules
After you create a vSphere Auto Deploy rule, the rule is in inactive state. You must activate the rule for it to take effect. You can use the Activate and Reorder wizard to activate, deactivate, and change the order of the rules.
View Host Associations
Some of the hosts in the vSphere Auto Deploy inventory might not be compliant with the active deploy rules. To verify that one or more ESXi hosts are compliant with the active rule set, you must check the host associations compliance.
Edit the Image Profile Association of a Host
You can edit the image profile association of a single host if the host is not associated with a vSphere Auto Deploy rule or if you do not want to change the image profile association of multiple hosts by editing a rule.
Remediate a Non-compliant Host
When you add a rule to the vSphere Auto Deploy active rule set or make changes to one or more rules, hosts are not updated automatically. You must remediate the host associations to apply the new rules to the host.
Add a Host to the vSphere Auto Deploy Inventory
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.
Add a Host to a Cluster That Uses a Single Image
То add ESXi hosts to a cluster that you manage by an image, you create a rule in Auto Deploy that assigns a host location to the hosts.
Working with Script Bundles
You can add a custom script for additional post-deployment host configuration. The script runs after you provision an ESXi host with Auto Deploy. For example, you can create a custom ESXi firewall rule and other configurations not available with Host Profiles.
Download vSphere Auto Deploy Logs
You can use the vSphere Auto Deploy logging information from the vSphere Client to resolve problems that you encounter with vSphere Auto Deploy.
Start, Stop, or Restart the vSphere Auto Deploy Service
You can start, stop, or restart the Auto Deploy service in the vCenter Server Management Interface.

Parent topic: Installing ESXi Using vSphere Auto Deploy

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