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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 6.5 Hosts Only
If your cluster contains stateful ESXi 6.5 hosts, you use the present workflow to resolve version
compliance errors when upgrading vCenter Server with version 6.5 to version 6.7.
Prerequisites
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Your cluster contains ESXi 6.5 hosts.
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A host profile with version 6.5 is attached to the cluster.
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Your vCenter Server is with version 6.5.
Procedure
1 Upgrade your vCenter Server to version 6.7.
There are no changes in the vCenter Server configurations.
2 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.
3 Remediate the ESXi hosts against the host profile with version 6.5.
Reboot is required for all remediated hosts.
4 Reboot all ESXi hosts.
5 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.
6 Attach the host profile with version 6.7 to the cluster.
The host customization data auto-populates.
All host profile operations are available.
vCenter Server Upgrade from 6.0 to 6.7 in Environment
With Stateless ESXi 6.0 Hosts Only
If your cluster contains stateless 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 6.0 hosts.
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A host profile with version 6.0 is attached to the cluster.
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Your vCenter Server is with version 6.0.
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