VMware vSphere 6.5 Cookbook - Third Edition

How it works...

A baseline group, once created, helps orchestrate end-to-end upgrade activity. Typically, during the maintenance window, the upgrade, patches, and extensions required for a specific object are pre-populated in the baseline group. This allows an administrator to scan the baseline group against the object(s) for compliance, as opposed to leveraging the individual baselines. This is particularly useful in larger deployments. The backend functionality is similar to the single baseline creation discussed earlier, albeit that it's nested in a group with the baseline group feature.