What is VMware host profile?

What is VMware host profile?

Host Profiles enables you to automate host configuration across a large number of hosts and clusters. In one click, you can instruct VMware vCenter Server to apply a host profile, at which point it configures each host to match the desired configuration state.

What is host profile in vCenter?

VMware Host Profiles is a vCenter Server tool for designing and deploying ESX/ESXi hosts. Host Profiles works by encapsulating a reference host configuration and turning it into a profile, or template, upon which other hosts or clusters of hosts can be configured.

How do I create a host profile?

Procedure

1. Navigate to the Host Profiles main view and click Extract Host Profile.
2. On the Select host page, select the vCenter Server instance where to create the host profile.
3. Select the host that acts as the reference host and click Next.

How do you remediate a host profile?

Procedure

1. Navigate to Host Profiles main view.
2. Right-click the host profile and select Remediate.
3. Select the hosts you want to remediate against the host profile.
4. (Optional) To specify host properties, enter your host customizations or import a host customization file.

What is host profiling?

A host profile is pretty much a configuration template. It is a representation of the configuration of a so called Reference Host captured as a managed object. The host profile, once created, may be applied to any other host you want identically configured.

How do I find my host profile compliance?

To check a host profile compliance:

1. In the Entities tab of the host profile main view, choose the host from the list under Associated Entity.
2. Click Check Compliance.
3. The compliance status is updated as Compliant, Unknown, or Non-compliant.

What is the host profile?

What is vmware auto deploy?

This article provides an overview of vSphere Auto Deploy. Auto Deploy stores the information for the ESXi hosts to be provisioned in different locations. Information about the location of image profiles and host profiles is initially specified in the rules that map machines to image profiles and host profiles.

How do I add a host to Vcenter?

Procedure

1. In the vSphere Client, navigate to a data center or folder within a data center.
2. Right-click the data center or folder and select Add Host.
3. Enter the IP address or the name of the host and click Next.
4. Enter administrator credentials and click Next.
5. Review the host summary and click Next.

What is vmware remediate?

When you remediate a cluster of hosts sequentially and one of the hosts fails to enter maintenance mode, Update Manager reports an error, and the process stops and fails. The hosts in the cluster that are remediated stay at the updated level.

What does reset host customizations do?

Remediate the host or reset the host customization to be prompted for input. The system stores your input and uses it the next time the host boots. When the host profile is set to prompt for user input, you must specify a value in the dialog that appears when you reset the host customization.

How use ESXi host profile?

Select your host profile on the Host Profiles page in VMware vSphere Client. On the details page of the selected Host Profiles, click Actions > Attach/Detach Hosts and Clusters. In the Attach/Detach window, select the ESXi host you want the host profile to apply to.