Implementation of Host Profiles

Implementing Host Profiles under vSphere

This article give a more insight on Host profiles under vSphere 6.7. Object behind to implement host profile is to configure each host identically in cluster to achieve operational efficiency at cluster level. There are lot of configurations that would go into an Esxi host post deployment.

Now, once way is to configure each host individually which naturally consumes lots of administrator physical efforts. other way is to go with host profile which includes general and advance setting, storage and networking configuration. You can extract the configuration from an existing Esxi host and same can be replicate to other hosts. ​ To implement this, make sure you must have enterprise plus licenses under vSphere environment. How it implement ?

​Open vSphere web Client with Admin rights, click on Extract Host Profile under host Profiles option.

New Window will open, enter profile name and description.

​Click on finish button to move onto next phase.

Host profile has been created, now you can push the reference host configuration to other host through this profile. Next phase is to Attaching/Detaching host to/from a Host profiles. Follow the below steps to attach profiles on new host.

​If required, edit the host profile through Edit option as per below pic.

Right click on the host profile (Production Profile) and click on attach/Detach hosts and clusters

​Select Cluster or host on which you wish to attach profile.

You can customize the host profile later as well.

Compliance can be check & remediate through right click on the host/cluster.

You can see compliance check task completed against each of the hosts attached to the host profile

You can create duplicate host profile, export host profile, edit host profile and copy setting to host profile specially when you are setting up a new environment and deploy multiple hosts.

Note :- Make sure changes done in the profiles with proper planning as single mistake may impact production.