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2 Right-click the host profile and select Edit Host Customizations.
3 Select the host or hosts for which to edit the customization, and click Next.
4 (Optional) Click Browse to import a .csv file from your desktop.
After importing the .csv file, the fields are updated with the information from the file.
5 Edit the host configuration values.
6 Click Finish.
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 for instructions.
Procedure
1 For SAS devices that are not detected as local, select Storage configuration > Pluggable Storage
Architecture configuration > PSA device sharing > name of device.
2 For each device not shared across the cluster, disable Device is shared clusterwide.
The Is Shared Clusterwide value for PSA devices helps you determine which devices in the cluster
should be configured by a host profile. Correctly setting this value for devices in the cluster eliminates
compliance errors due to non-shared devices.
By default, this value is populated to reflect the Is Local setting for the device. For example, a device
with Is Local set to True, this setting is disabled by default. This setting allows storage host profiles to
ignore these devices during compliance checks.
You can find the Is Local setting for the device by running the command esxcli storage core
device list in the ESXi Shell. For more information on this command and identifying disks or
LUNs, see http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1014953.
3 For SAN boot LUN devices shared across the cluster but logically local to the host, disable the Is
Shared Clusterwide on the reference host. You must set the value to False before extracting the
host profile from the reference host. When applying the host profile to the target host, the boot device
settings for the remote boot LUN device are copied from the reference host into the target host.
Select Storage configuration > Pluggable Storage Architecture configuration > Host boot
device configuration and verify that this LUN is correctly captured.
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