You can add, modify, or delete the host profile.
You can create a host profile with specific set of BIOS settings, firmware version, PCI devices, and PCI groups. When you create a host and select a specific host profile for a domain, VMware Telco Cloud Automation applies the configurations of the specified host profile to all the hosts within that domain.
Prerequisites
- Ensure that you have details of BIOS keys and values.
- Ensure that you have details of the firmware.
Procedure
- Click the Configuration tab.
- Click Host Profile.
- To add a new host profile, click Add .
Note: To create a new host profile using the configuration file of other host profile, click
Load Configuration and select the required
JSON file.
- Add the profile name in the Profile Name field.
- In the BIOS Settings Field, to add values click Add Attributes.
- Add the BIOS key in the Key field.
- Add the corresponding value of the BIOS key in the Value field.
- In the Advance System Settings Field, to add key value pairs click Add Attributes.
Note:
For few specific attributes, you might need to restart ESXi so that the changes are reflected after applying the configuration through HCP workflow.
- CPU Power Management introduces feature on effectively use the power resources for CPU based on different power management policies such as High Performance, Balanced, Low power, and Custom.
- In Firmwares, to add values, click Add Firmware.
- In the PCI Device Settings, to add values click Add Device.
- To add a PCI device action, click Add Action.
Select the value from the drop-down menu. You can select SR-IOV for SRIOV based devices, PassThrough for PassThrough devices, or Custom for Accelerator devices.
In the
PCI Device section, the only supported device type for a CUSTOM PCI Device is Accelerator (going forward, acc100 is referred as Accelerator). For existing
hostconfig
profiles configured in prior releases, the displayed device type will still be shown as
acc100.
A new field, called FFT Binary File, is added to support customizing the FFT Binary for an vRan Boost accelerator device. You can click the BROWSE button and select a local file.
Note:
The FFT Binary File is only supported for vRan Boost accelerator devices. If it is applied it to an ACC100 device, an error is encountered.
- To add a filter for PCI devices, click Add Filter. Provide the values of Key and Value field.
- In the PCI Device Groups, to create a device group, click Add Group.
- Add the group name in the Device Group Name.
- To add a filter for the device group, click Add Filter and enter the key and value in the Key and Value field. You can select the value from the drop-down list.
- NUMA ID
- Device ID
- Vendor ID
- Alias
Note: Alias is the name assigned by ESXi for a PCI Device. The input must be a regex pattern that matches with the target PCI device. For example, if the input value is
^vmnic1$
, then only vmnic1 is considered. Do not use this filter if the target PCI device is operating in Passthrough Mode as the alias value is unavailable.
- Index
- In the ESXi Reservation, to add ESXi details.