Chapter 3. Using vSphere Host Profiles
In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:
- Preparing a reference host
- Creating a Host Profile
- Exporting a Host Profile
- Importing a Host Profile
- Duplicating a Host Profile
- Attaching/detaching ESXi hosts to/from a Host Profile
- Verifying the profile compliance of an ESXi host
- Remediating an ESXI host for profile compliance
- Using Host Profiles to push a new configuration change
Introduction
It is of prime importance to make sure that every ESXi host in a cluster is configured identically to achieve operational efficiency at the cluster level. There is a lot of configuration that would go into an ESXi host after it is deployed. These include the general/advanced settings, storage and networking configuration, ...
Get VMware vSphere 5.5 Cookbook now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
