The Configuration Drifts feature in vSphere+ helps you to seamlessly provision and manage your vCenter configurations across geographies and different domains. You can automate compliance checks and easily identify vCenter instances that are not compliant with the desired configuration.

To ensure that all the vCenter instances adhere to the desired configuration, you must:
  1. Create profiles
    Create a profile with the desired configuration from one of the vCenter instances. You can either extract the configuration from a vCenter or import the configuration from a JSON file. You can use this profile as a configuration template to configure other vCenter instances with the same configuration settings.
  2. Assign profiles
    Assign profiles to vCenter instances on which you want to check compliance. You can assign only one profile to a vCenter.
  3. Check compliance
    Run compliance checks to verify whether the vCenter configuration matches the profile configuration and to detect any drifts instantly. You can run compliance checks either manually or schedule periodically at specific intervals.

Prerequisites

  • Set up the authentication mechanism between the vCenter and VMware Cloud. See Set Up vSphere+ Authentication.
  • Ensure that you have the Cloud Administrator role.

Procedure

  1. Log in to the VMware Cloud Console at https://vmc.vmware.com.
  2. Click Configuration Drifts.
  3. Follow the on-screen prompts to create profiles, assign profiles to vCenter instances, and run compliance checks.