6.0.1

The changes are made when the "Update Host Profile" task is completed in the Recent Tasks status. If you
attempt to remediate the profile before the task is complete, the profile configuration does not contain the
change.
Edit a Policy
A policy describes how a specific configuration setting is applied. You can edit policies belonging to a
specific Host Profile.
When you edit the Host Profile, you can expand the Host Profile's configuration hierarchy to see the sub-
profile components that comprise the Host Profile. These components are categorized by functional group
or resource class to make it easier to find a particular parameter. Each subprofile component contains one or
more attributes and parameters, along with the policies and compliance checks.
Each policy consists of one or more options that contains one or more parameters. Each parameter consists
of a key and a value. The value can be one of a few basic types, for example integer, string, string array, or
integer array.
NOTE Currently, there is no way to remove or replace policy options policies, or sub-profiles that are
deprecated in this release. Metadata is added to these deprecated policies that allows old host profiles to
continue working but will extract new host profiles with only non-deprecated parts of a host profile.
Table 1‑1. Subset of Host Profile Subprofile Configurations
Component Categories Configuration Settings Notes and Examples
Advanced Configuration
Settings
Advanced Options, Agent VM ,
DirectPath I/O , Hosts file, Power
Ssytem, System Image Cache
n
Host Profiles do not check advanced
settings if they are the same as the default
settings. vCenter Server copies only the
advanced configuration settings that have
changed and that differ from the default
values. In addition, compliance checks are
limited to the settings that are copied.
n
Host Profiles does not support the
configuration of PCI devices for virtual
machine passthrough on the ESXi host.
CIM Indication
Subscriptions
CIM-XML Indication Subscriptions
General System Settings Console, Core Dump, Device Alias, Host
Cache, Kernel Module, Management
Agent, System Resource Pool, System
Swap, vFlash Host Swap Cache
For Date and Time Configuration:
n
For the time zone, enter a UTC string. For
example, "America/Los_Angeles" for
United States Pacific time zone.
n
The default time zone is set to the local time
and location of the vSphere Web Client
machine.
n
Configure Network Time Protocol (NTP)
correctly. You can configure the NTP
settings on the host's Manage tab. Click
Settings then Time Configuration (under
System). Click Edit to configure the time
settings .
Networking vSwitch, Port groups, Physical NIC
speed, security and NIC teaming
policies, vSphere Distributed Switch,
and vSphere Distributed Switch uplink
port.
When DHCPv6 is enabled in the networking
subprofile, manually turn on the corresponding
ruleset in the firewall subprofile.
vSphere Host Profiles
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