vSphere 5.5 – Create and Attach Host Profiles in vSphere Web Client

Host Profiles is a tool for creating host configuration profiles that you can use for automated host configuration and configuration compliance check.
This is a great way to have consistent configuration across all your hosts, and by having consistent configuration you avoid having many possible problems with other technologies like HA, vMotion, FT, DRS, etc.

Workflow for creating Host Profile

  • Configure reference ESXi host.
  • Create Host Profile by extracting configuration from reference ESXi host.
  • Attach hosts/clusters to a Host Profile
  • Check ESXi host compliance with Host Profile

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