The following procedure will guide you through the steps involved in creating an image profile by cloning a predefined image profile:
- Log in to the vSphere Web Client and navigate to the Auto Deploy plugin screen.
- On the Auto Deploy screen, select the Software Depots you would like to clone the Image Profiles from. In this case, we have selected the depot created by importing an offline bundle.
- With the intended software depot selected, navigate to the image profiles tab and select the image profile you would like to clone.
- With the image profile selected, click on the Clone Image Profile
icon to bring up the Clone Image Profile wizard:
- On the Clone Image Profile wizard screen, supply a Name, Vendor, Description (optional) and choose the destination Software depot. Click Next to continue:
- On the Select software packages screen, set a desired Acceptance level for the image profile, choose a software depot to fetch the packages from, select the packages and click Next to continue:
- On the Ready to complete screen, review the setting and click Finish to start the clone operation.
- You should see a Connect depot task complete successfully in the Recent Tasks pane.
- Once done, the custom depot will list the newly cloned image profile. Verify whether it has the desired vendor Name, Acceptance Level, and the packages:
