Performing Infrastructure Profile Management Operations

You can export an existing vCenter Server configuration and import it to other vCenter Server instances.

You can export multiple configuration profiles at once. The exported data can contain general configuration settings and user content. You can replicate the same configuration across all vCenter Server instances in your environment by importing the same data package. You can also use the exported data as a backup if you need to revert to the last known good configuration. To avoid configuration issues, you can validate the exported data before importing it to a vCenter Server instance.

The following table lists the operations that you can perform to manage the configuration profiles in your infrastructure.

Table 1. User Operations

Operation	Description
List configuration profiles	You can retrieve a list of all configuration profiles that are registered with vCenter Server.
Export configuration profiles	You can export specific vCenter Server configuration profiles.
Validate configuration profiles	You can validate the exported vCenter Server configuration profiles. The validation process examines the configuration file for possible errors and conflicts and returns output. This operation can help avoid configuration issues or loading the wrong configuration file.
Import configuration profiles	You can import specific vCenter Server configuration profiles into another vCenter Server instance.

You can run infrastructure profile management operations by using the vSphere Automation SDK or sending an HTTP request. For information about the HTTP requests that you can use to perform the user operations, see HTTP Requests for Infrastructure Profile Management Operations.