6.7

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 2‑1. 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 System, 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.
General System Settings Console, Core Dump, Device Alias, Host
Cache, Kernel Module, Management Agent,
System Resource Pool, System Swap,
vFlash Host Swap Cache, CIM-XML
Indication Subscriptions
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 Configure tab. Click 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.
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