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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
Environment Contains Stateful ESXi 5.5 and 6.0 Hosts
If your cluster contains stateful ESXi 5.5 and ESXi 6.0 hosts, you use the present workflow to resolve
version compliance errors when upgrading vCenter Server with version 6.0 to version 6.7.
Prerequisites
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Your cluster contains ESXi 5.5 and ESXi 6.0 hosts.
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A host profile with version 5.5 is attached to the cluster.
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Your vCenter Server is with version 6.0.
Procedure
1 Upgrade all ESXi 5.5 hosts in the cluster to version 6.0.
2 Remediate the upgraded hosts against the host profile with version 5.5.
3 Extract a new host profile from one of the upgraded hosts in the cluster.
There are some changed parameters for the host profile policy. For more information, see Answer
File Field and Host Profile Extraction.
4 Attach the host profile with version 6.0 to the cluster.
5 Remediate the cluster against the host profile with version 6.0.
6 Upgrade your vCenter Server to version 6.7.
There are no changes in the vCenter Server configurations.
7 Upgrade all ESXi hosts in the cluster to version 6.7.
Edit host customization and host profile edit operations are not available, see KB 2150534.
Compliance check, attach host profile and remediate hosts operations are available.
8 Remediate the ESXi hosts in the cluster against the host profile with version 6.0.
Note Hosts display a compliance error post remediation for the
UserVars.ESXiVPsDisabledProtocols option, see VMware vSphere 6.7 Release Notes.
All host profile settings are applied.
9 Extract a new host profile from an ESXi 6.7 host.
There are some changed parameters for the host profile policy. For more information, see Answer
File Field and Host Profile Extraction.
10 Attach the host profile with version 6.7 to the cluster.
The host customization data auto-populates.
All host profile operations are available.
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