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Table Of Contents
- vSphere Host Profiles
- Contents
- About vSphere Host Profiles
- Updated Information
- Using Host Profiles
- Host Profiles Usage Model
- Reference Host Independence
- Access Host Profiles
- Create a Host Profile
- Attach Entities to a Host Profile
- Detach Entities From a Host Profile
- Check Compliance
- Remediate a Host
- Edit a Host Profile
- Duplicate a Host Profile
- Copy Settings from Host
- Host Profiles and vSphere Auto Deploy
- Import a Host Profile
- Export a Host Profile
- Index
6 (Optional) You can update or change the user input parameters for the Host Profiles policies by
customizing the host.
See “Host Profiles and vSphere Auto Deploy,” on page 17.
7 Click Finish to complete attaching the host or cluster to the profile.
Detach Entities From a Host Profile
In order to remove the policy-managed configuration from a host or cluster, that host or cluster must be
detached from the Host Profile.
When a Host Profile is attached to a cluster, the host or hosts within that cluster are also attached to the Host
Profile. However, when the Host Profile is detached from the cluster, the association between the host or
host within the cluster and that Host Profile remains.
Procedure
1 From the Profile List in the Host Profiles main view, select the Host Profile to be detached from a host
or cluster.
2
Click the Attach/Detach Hosts and clusters to a host profile icon ( ).
3 Select the host or cluster from the expanded list and click Detach.
The host or cluster is added to the Attached Entities list.
4 (Optional) Click Detach All to detach all listed hosts and clusters from the profile.
5 Click Next.
6 Click Finish to complete attaching the host or cluster to the profile.
Check Compliance
You can confirm the compliance of a host or cluster to its attached Host Profile and determine which, if any,
configuration parameters on a host are different from those specified in the Host Profile.
Procedure
1 Navigate to a Host Profile.
The Objects tab lists all Host Profies, the number or hosts attached to that Host Profile, and
summarized results of the last compliance check.
2
Click the Check Host Profile Compliance icon ( ).
In the Objects tab, the compliance status is updated as Compliant, Unknown, or Non-compliant.
A non-compliant status indicates a discovered and specific inconsistency between the profile and the host.
To resolve this, you should remediate the host. And unknown status indicates that the compliance of the
host could not be verified; to resolve the issue, remediate the host through the Host Profile.
NOTE Host profiles do not capture offline or unpresented devices. Any changes made to offline devices
after extracting a host profile will not make a difference to the compliance check results.
vSphere Host Profiles
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