Scenario 25

Scenario:

The host hardware on which you need to install includes an OCZ Technology Z-Drive R4 Solid State Drive (SSD). The standard ESXi installer contains all the drivers you need, except the best driver for the SSD. Use Image Builder to build a custom ESXi installer where the standard ESXi Installer is merged with the custom OCZ Z-Drive R4 C Series and R Series SSD driver.

Requirements:

Use Image Builder to utilize a depot file that contains the standard ESXi profile.

Use Image Builder to utilize a depot file that contains the custom SSD driver.

Create a new image profile that merges the driver with the standard profile.

Export the new image profile to an ISO file.

Environment Information:

Depot file containing the standard ESXi profile: d:\depot\VMware-ESXi-5.1.0-799733-depot.zip

Depot file containing the driver: d:\depot\ocz10xx-1.0.0-offline_bundle-751505.zip

New image profile name: ESXi-5.1.0-799733-custom

ISO file name for export: d:\ESXi-5.1.0-799733-custom

Objective: 9.1 Install ESXi hosts with custom settings

Guide Reference(s):

Chapter 10 - Scenario 10-2

Chapter 9 –Install and Uninstall Custom Drivers

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Solution

To accomplish this task, the administrator can perform the following steps:

Download the depot files to a folder named d:\depot on a Windows desktop where PowerCLI is installed.
Issue the following commands:

Add-ESXSoftwareDepot d:\depot\ocz10xx-1.0.0-offline_bundle-751505.zip

Add-ESXSoftwareDepot d:\depot\VMware-ESXi-5.1.0-799733-depot.zip
Get-ESXImageProfile

New-ESXImageProfile -CloneProfile ESXi-5.1.0-799733-standard -Name "ESXi-5.1.0-799733-custom"

Get-ESXSoftwarePackage

Add-EsxSoftwarePackage -ImageProfile ESXi-5.1.0-799733-custom -SoftwarePackage scsi-ocz10xx

Export-ESXImageProfile -ImageProfile ESXi-5.1.0-799733-custom -ExportToISO -FilePath d:\ESXi-
5.1.0-799733-custom