Esx Settings HostSoftwarePolicySpec

This Esx Settings HostSoftwarePolicySpec schema contains properties that define the settings to manage the behaviour of the POST /esx/settings/hosts/{host}/software?action=apply API.

This schema was added in vSphere API 9.1.0.0.

JSON Example

{
    "skip_reserved_vibs_caching": false
}

boolean

skip_reserved_vibs_caching

Optional

Skip caching of reserved VIBs on the host. During effective VIB computation, a VIB at a lower version can get replaced by the same VIB at a higher version coming from another release unit. vLCM caches the lower version VIB in ESX-OSData partition to support extraction of currently running image from the hosts. Setting this option means (a) remediation will not cache reserved VIBs, (b) extracting the currently running image from such hosts will not include the reserved VIBs. Hence, the image will not be complete and that might lead to remediation failures.

NOTE: Use this option with caution.

This property was added in vSphere API 9.1.0.0.

If missing or null, reserved VIBs will be cached.