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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
Procedure
1 Create a host profile from an ESXi 6.0 host.
2 Apply the host profile to the cluster.
3 Upgrade your vCenter Server to version 6.7.
There are no changes in the vCenter Server configurations.
4 Create a new rule with an image profile version 6.7 and select the cluster.
5 Activate the rule.
6 Boot all ESXi hosts in the cluster.
All hosts are compliant with the host profile. Remediation and check compliance operations are
available, but the host profile with version 6.0 cannot be edited.
The hosts boot using the new rule and the new host profile is applied.
7 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.
8 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 6.5 to 6.7 in Environment
With Stateless ESXi 6.5 Hosts Only
If your cluster contains stateless 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 Create a new rule or edit the existing rule with an image profile version 6.7 and select the cluster.
3 Remediate all ESXi hosts by clicking Remediate Host Associations.
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