And then I have to specify who the vendor is, and that's me. And I will call it BRIX because that's what I'm building it for. You'll appreciate that later when trying to figure out which image is which.
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I recommend putting in the full name here. That's the one that I want to clone, and I want to give it a new name. I want to do New-EsxImageProfile, clone an existing profile, ESXi-6.5.0-4564106-standard. So what I want to do is make a clone of that so that I can make edits to it. I have a standard version and one with no-tools.
And this will show me the two 6.5 images that are available from VMware. They can specify the name was a wildcard. Now I can view which image profiles are available using Get-EsxImageProfile, and I just want the ones for 6.5. Once again, this command will take a little bit to complete. Next, we want to connect to the VFront Software Depot for the custom vibs. And this command will take a while to complete.
And then we want to connect to VMware first. So when you see it suddenly capitalize everything, that's because I hit Tab. And you can use Tab completion to do a lot of commands. There's two that we'll need to connect to. The first thing that we need to do is connect to the EsxSoftwareDepots. We don't want to participate in the Customer Experience Program, so we type L for leave, and now we have a shell. Now we notice it loading the Power CLI modules. Then I can close it and start it again as a normal user. So the first thing that I need to do is launch Power CLI as administrator and set the execution policy to RemoteSigned. One is the 32-bit version and one is the 64-bit version. Once I have PowerShell installed, I should have two new icons on my desktop. Just go through and use the standard settings. I'd have to change the execution policy for PowerShell to RemoteSigned. Power CLI is a snap-in for Windows PowerShell that gives me commands that I can use with VMware.
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The first thing I need to do is install Power CLI. Once I have all of the software downloaded, my next step is to use Image Builder to create a custom image that will support all of the hardware on the BRIX.