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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
Prerequisites
Verify that you have a working vSphere installation and at least one completely and properly configured
host that acts as the reference host.
Procedure
1 Navigate to the Host Profiles main view and click Extract Host Profile.
2 Select the host that acts as the reference host and click Next.
The selected host must be a valid host.
3 Enter the name and description for the new profile, and click Next.
4 Review the summary information for the new profile and click Finish.
The new profile appears in the Host Profiles pane.
Note Host profiles do not capture offline or nonpresent devices. Any changes made to offline devices
after extracting a host profile do not make a difference to the compliance check results.
Attach Entities to a Host Profile
After creating a host profile from a reference host, you attach the host or cluster to the host profile.
Note You can also attach a host profile by right-clicking the specific host and select Host Profiles >
Attach Host Profile.
Procedure
1 From the Host Profiles main view, select the host profile to be applied to the host or cluster.
2 Click Attach/Detach a host profile to hosts and clusters.
3 Select the host or cluster from the expanded list and click Attach.
The host or cluster is added to the Attached Entities list.
4 (Optional) Click Attach All to attach all listed hosts and clusters to the profile.
5 If you enable Skip Host Customization you will not need to customize hosts during this process.
If you skip host customizations during this process, you should edit or import host customizations
before you remediate the host profile
6 Click Next.
7 (Optional) You can update or change the user input parameters for the Host Profiles policies by
customizing the host. You will not see this step if you enabled Skip Host Customization.
See Host Profiles and vSphere Auto Deploy.
8 Click Finish to complete attaching the host or cluster to the profile.
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