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Role This profile allows you to view default roles and add custom roles within the ESXi system.
User
Configuration
This profile allows you to create and manage user accounts.
Here are some of the operations that you can perform for user accounts:
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Create a user account.
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Configure the password for a user account.
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Configure the password for the root user.
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Configure the role for any user that is not the default one.
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Assign a default or custom role (configure permissions) for a local account.
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Configure the SSH key for any user.
Active Directory
Permission
This profile allows you to manage permissions for active directory users or groups. For example, you can
create permissions that associate an active directory user or a group with a role.
When an ESXi host joins the active directory domain, an Admin permission is created for the DOMAIN
group ESX Admins. Also, when an active directory user or group is given some permissions on the ESXi
host, a corresponding permission is created on that host. The Active Directory Permission profile captures
that permission.
For information on the security profile, see the vSphere Security documentation.
Configure Networking Host Profiles
By default, hosts provisioned with vSphere Auto Deploy are assigned DHCP addresses by a DHCP
server. You can use the vSphere Auto Deploy host customization mechanism to assign static IP
addresses to hosts.
Prerequisites
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Set up your vSphere Auto Deploy environment.
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Boot the host using vSphere Auto Deploy.
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Extract a host profile from the host.
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 Change the default IP address settings by locating Networking configuration > Host port group >
Management Network > IP address settings.
5 From the IPv4 address drop-down menu, select User specified IP address to be used while
applying the configuration.
6 If the host is in a different subnet than the vCenter Server system, select Networking Configuration
> NetStack Instance > defaultTcpipStack > DNS configuration and enter the default route in the
Default IPv4 gateway text box.
7 Select Networking Configuration > NetStack Instance > defaultTcpipStack > DNS configuration.
8 Make sure the Flag indicating if DHCP should be used check box is deselected.
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