6.5.1
Table Of Contents
- vSphere Host Profiles
- Contents
- About vSphere Host Profiles
- Updated Information
- Introduction To vSphere Host Profiles
- Using Host Profiles
- 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
- Copy Settings to Host Profile
- Configuring Host Profiles
- Troubleshooting Host Profiles
Configuring Host Profiles 3
This section describes how to configure host profiles using the host profile editor.
This chapter includes the following topics:
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Host Customization
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Configure Storage Host Profiles
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Configure Security Host Profile
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Set Up Host Profiles for Static IP Addresses in the vSphere Web Client
Host Customization
To customize hosts with shared attributes, you can create a host profile in a reference host. To customize
individual hosts, you can set up some fields in the host profile to prompt the user for input for each host.
Host profiles allow you to prespecify information, for example, the storage setup or Syslog setup in a
reference host to and apply the host profile to a set of target hosts that share the same settings. You can
also use host profiles to specify that certain settings are host dependent. If you do so, the host comes up
in maintenance mode when you provision it with Auto Deploy. Remediate the host or reset the host
customization to be prompted for input. The system stores your input and uses it the next time the host
boots.
When the host profile is set to prompt for user input, you must specify a value in the dialog that appears
when you reset the host customization. An error results if you do not specify a value.
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