So I had a chance to load this VIB into our test lab. Here are some of the quirks I found. Before I even applied the VIB I used the blog post you mentioned in the comments to change the logon banner to our company approved text. The PowerCLI worked well enough and I was able to change the banner to our company approved text.
I then applied the VIB using VUM and rebooted the host (ESXi 5.5). To my surprise the login banner still had my company text and not the standard government text. I expected the VIB to override what I had done with PowerCLI. This was not the case. This was an unexpected bonus as I didn’t have to re-run the PowerCLI commands.
One annoyance I did find after the VIB install was that the /etc/issue file had become read only. When I tried to use vi to edit the text to fit our company approved banner it would not let me save the changes. I tried modifying the permissions to the /etc/issue to allow me to save changes (chmod) but still it would not let me save the changes. I had to delete the /etc/issue and recreate one to finally be allowed to add our company banner text. Prior to installing the VIB I was able to edit the /etc/issue with no problems.
Thoughts?
Other than that the VIB worked well. It essentially put all the settings I had done manually via command line with a few mouse clicks in VUM.