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Table Of Contents
- vSphere Host Profiles
- Contents
- About vSphere Host Profiles
- 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 in the vSphere Web Client
- Configuring Host Profiles
- Recommended Host Profiles Upgrade Workflows
- vCenter Server Upgrade from 6.0 to 6.7 With Stateful ESXi Hosts Version 6.0 or Earlier
- vCenter Server Upgrade from 6.5 to 6.7 With Stateful ESXi Hosts Version 6.5 or Earlier
- vCenter Server Upgrade from 6.0 to 6.7 in Environment With Stateless ESXi 6.0 Hosts Only
- vCenter Server Upgrade from 6.5 to 6.7 in Environment With Stateless ESXi 6.5 Hosts Only
- Answer File Field and Host Profile Extraction
- Troubleshooting Host Profiles
Edit Host Customizations
You can edit the host customizations for specific hosts attached to a host profile or cluster attached to a
host profile.
Procedure
1 Navigate to Host Profiles main view.
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) In the Customize hosts pane, you can Import Host Customization .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 Security Host Profile
Use this procedure to manage role, user account, and active directory permission profiles that are
grouped as part of the security host profile.
You can configure the host profile options, part of the security profile.
Prerequisites
Make sure that you have the SecurityConfigProfile plugin available to validate the role, user account, and
active directory permission profiles as there are dependencies between them.
Procedure
1 Navigate to Host Profiles main view.
2 Select the host profile that you want to edit and click the Configure tab.
3 Click Edit Host Profile.
4 Unfold the Security and Services > Security Settings profile category and open the Security folder.
You are present with the following profiles:
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