Integrate host profiles of an ESXi host with NSX on stateful servers.
A stateful host is a host that retains all configurations and the installed VIBs even after it is rebooted. While an auto-deploy server is needed for stateless hosts because the boot up files required to bring up a stateless hosts are stored on the auto-deploy server, a stateful host does not need a similar infrastructure. Because the boot up files required to bring up a stateful host is stored on its hard drive.
In this procedure, the reference host is outside of the stateful cluster and the target hosts in the cluster. A target host can be within a cluster or a standalone host outside of the cluster. Prepare a cluster by applying host profile and transport node profile (TN profile) , so that any new target hosts joining the cluster is automatically prepared with NSX VIBs. Configure the target host as a transport node. Similarly, for a standalone host, apply the host profile and configure NSX to install NSX VIBs and when NSX configuration is complete, it becomes a transport node.
