Host profiles allow you to set up standard configurations for your ESXi hosts and automate compliance to these configuration settings. Host profiles allow you to control many aspects of host configuration including memory, storage, networking, and so on.
Host Profiles provide an automated and centrally managed mechanism for host configuration and configuration compliance. Host Profiles can improve efficiency by reducing reliance upon repetitive, manual tasks. Host Profiles capture the configuration of a pre-configured and validated reference host, store the configuration as a managed object and use the catalog of parameters contained within to configure networking, storage, security, and other host-level parameters.
You can configure host profiles for a reference host from the vSphere Client and apply the host profile to all hosts that share the characteristics of the reference host. You can also use host profiles to monitor hosts for host configuration changes. See the vSphere Host Profiles documentation.
You can attach the host profile to a cluster to apply it to all hosts in the cluster.
Procedure
- Set up the reference host to specification and create a host profile.
- Attach the profile to a host or cluster.
- Apply the host profile of the reference host to other hosts or clusters.
