Creating a vSphere Lifecycle Manager Image
in VMware Cloud Foundation
A vSphere Lifecycle Manager image must be made available in
VMware Cloud Foundation
before it can be applied to a VI
workload domain or vSphere cluster. You can either extract the vSphere Lifecycle Manager
image from an existing vSphere Lifecycle Manager enabled workload domain cluster or import a
vSphere Lifecycle Manager image that has been created and exported from an external vCenter
Server (vSphere 7.0).A
vSphere Lifecycle Manager image can be customized when it is applied to a vSphere
cluster inVMware Cloud Foundation. For example, say your vSphere Lifecycle Manager image
included only the base ESXi image. When you use this vSphere Lifecycle Manager image to
create a VI workload domain, NSX-T Data Center components are added to the default
cluster during the VI workload domain creation. You may also add vendor-adds,
components, or firmware to the VI workload domain cluster. You can now extract the
updated image from this cluster and reuse it for other similar clusters in this VI
workload domain or in other VI workload domains.