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HOL-1811-03: Deploying Software to a Specific Host

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This part of the lab is presented as a Hands-on Labs Interactive Simulation. This will allow you to experience steps which are too time-consuming or resource intensive to do live in the lab environment. In this simulation, you can use the software interface as if you are interacting with a live environment.

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The Deploying Software to a Specific Host process consists of two stages:

  • Stage 1: Remove the Host Rule
  • Stage 2: Deploy ESXi to a Non-Inventory Host

This simulation will go through each stage to update a host which are  too time-consuming or resource intensive to do live in the lab  environment.

Remove the Host and Rule

The new Auto Deploy Graphical User Interface makes it easy to utilize Auto Deploy for quickly deploying hosts to a cluster. Not all hosts are going to be part of a cluster and fall into the set fo  rules created. By using Add to Inventory in the discovered hosts  section you can easily deploy a host without creating a deploy rule. A host can be deployed on an ad-hoc basis through the "add to inventory" feature or deploy rules can be created to automatically assign a host based on a property of the host. For the sake of continuity with the previous simulations, we will delete the host that we had previously installed ESXi 6.5 on, and then redeploy 6.5 on it by specifically chosing that host from an inventory of discovered computers. Normally, you would not have to do this.

  1. Click the Enter Maintenance Mode button.
  2. Click OK in the Confirm Maintainance Mode pop-up box.
  3. Click the Actions drop down menu.
  4. Click Remove from inventory.
  5. Click Yes in the Remove Host pop-up box.
  6. Click on the Home icon.
  7. Click Auto Deploy.
  8. Click Deploy Rules.
  9. Click the existing rule.
  10. Click Delete on this rule. This will allow us to show how to deploy ESXi to a new host without an existing rule.
  11. Click Yes in the "Delete Rule" confirmation pop-up.

We have now removed the rule that was deploying ESXi to a host, and we have removed the host from our inventory in vCenter. This creates a situation where we have a host that does not have ESXi installed and no existing rule in Autodeploy to install ESXi on that host.

Deploy ESXi to a Non-Inventory Host

  1. Click on the Discovered Hosts tab.
  2. Click on the host with the IP address: 192.168.100.125.
  3. Click Add to Inventory.
  4. Click Next to chose the "ESXi-6.5.0-2-170404001-standard" image as the one that will be applied to the host.
  5. Click the Do not include a host profile checkbox, as we will not be applying a host profile at this time.
  6. Click Next.
  7. Click the arrow next to "RegionB01" to expand the tree and select "RegionB01-COMP01". This identifies where the host will exist inside of  vCenter.
  8. Click Next.
  9. Click Finish.
  10. Click on Hosts and Clusters to watch the deployment process.
  11. Click on the new host as it gets deployed.
  12. Click the Refresh button to update the status of the host.

Notice that the Summary of the host is updated as ESXi is deoplyed to the host, and the server is added to the vCenter inventory.

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