Implement Host Profiles with an Auto Deploy of an ESXi host

vSphere 6.5 provides the Host Profiles feature, which allows you to include an ESXi configuration in a profile (referred to as a template) to ensure all newly provisioned hosts have the same configuration across the infrastructure. To benefit from the Host Profiles feature, the Enterprise Plus license is required.

In a large environment, the manual setup of deployed hosts is not only time-consuming, but configuration errors may also occur at any time. A Host Profiles template is created by profiling an existing ESXi host (reference host) containing its configuration, and applying it to any host of the infrastructure to ensure consistency. You can edit a host profile to modify, enable, ...

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