An administrator is deploying ESXi 6.x hosts using Auto Deploy and wants the image profile to be available, even after closing and opening a new PowerCLI window. Which command can be used to ensure th

The correct answer is B. Export-EsxImageProfile. Image profiles created or modified within a PowerCLI session exist only in memory by default and are lost when the session ends. 'Export-EsxImageProfile' (Option B) serializes the image profile to a persistent file - either a ZIP (software depot) or ISO format - that can be re-im

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Question

An administrator is deploying ESXi 6.x hosts using Auto Deploy and wants the image profile to be available, even after closing and opening a new PowerCLI window. Which command can be used to ensure that image profiles are preserved across PowerCLI sessions?

Options

ASet-EsxImageProfile
BExport-EsxImageProfile
CSave-EsxImageProfile
DPreserve-EsxImageProfile

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Explanation

Image profiles created or modified within a PowerCLI session exist only in memory by default and are lost when the session ends. 'Export-EsxImageProfile' (Option B) serializes the image profile to a persistent file - either a ZIP (software depot) or ISO format - that can be re-imported in future sessions, making the profile durable across restarts. 'Set-EsxImageProfile' modifies properties of an existing in-memory profile but does not persist it. 'Save-EsxImageProfile' and 'Preserve-EsxImageProfile' are not valid VMware PowerCLI cmdlets and do not exist in the Auto Deploy toolkit.

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