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Table 1‑1. Subset of Host Profile Subprofile Configurations (Continued)
Component Categories Configuration Settings Notes and Examples
Security Firewall, Security Settings, Service
Storage Configure storage options, including
Native Multi-Pathing (NMP), Pluggable
Storage Architecture (PSA), FCoE and
iSCSI adapters, and NFS storage.
n
Use the vSphere CLI to configure or modify
the NMP and PSA policies on a reference
host, and then extract the Host Profile from
that host. If you use the Profile Editor to
edit the policies, to avoid compliance
failures, make sure that you understand
interrelationships between the NMP and
PSA policies and the consequences of
changing individual policies. For
information about the NMP and PSA, see
the vSphere Storage documentation.
n
Add the rules that change device attributes
before extracting the Host Profile from the
reference host. After attaching a host to the
Host Profile, if you edit the profile and
change the device attributes (for example,
mask device paths or adding SATP rules to
mark the device as SSD) you are prompted
to reboot the host to make the changes.
However, after rebooting, compliance
failures occur because the attributes
changed. Because Host Profiles extract
device attributes before rebooting, if any
changes occur after the reboot, it evaluates
and finds those changes, and reports it as
noncompliant.
Other profile configuration categories include: user group, authentication, kernel module, DCUI keyboard,
host cache settings, SFCB, resource pools, login banner, SNMP agent, power system, and CIM indication
subscriptions.
Procedure
1 Edit the Host Profile.
2 Expand a subprofile until you reach the policy to edit.
3 Select the policy.
The policy options and parameters appear on the right side of the Edit Host Profile window.
4 Make changes to the policy.
Configure Storage Host Profiles
When you use storage devices that are not shared across a cluster, but that the vSphere storage stack cannot
detect as local, compliance failures might occur when you apply a host profile.
To resolve the compliance failures caused by using unshared storage devices, use the upgraded Pluggable
Storage Architecture (PSA) and Native Multipathing Plug-In host profile policies.
NOTE ESXi diagnostic data that you obtain by running the vm-support command contains host profiles
information which includes storage host profiles, PSA, NMP, and Virtual Volumes data. No sensitive
information, such as passwords, is collected.
Prerequisites
Extract a host profile from a reference host. See “Create a Host Profile,” on page 11 for instructions.
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