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Baseline groups

In addition to baselines, you can define baseline groups used to put together different existing baselines to meet specific needs for your environment. For example, baseline groups can be used if you want to update ESXi hosts in your environment, ensuring that a specific patch is applied during remediation. You can create a baseline group combining a dynamic baseline for patches and a static baseline with the specific patch you want to apply. To install the latest updates and host extensions to ESXi hosts, using a baseline group allows you to combine different baseline types, performing the task in a single step, simplifying the overall procedure.

To create a new baseline group, from vSphere Web Client, select Home | Update ...