VMware Host Profiles

Host Profiles:

In Larger IT virtualized environment, it is very difficult to keep track of configuration changes and also maintain consistent configuration across all ESX host. Configuring multiple hosts manually will prone to human mistakes and also a time consuming process.

Host Profiles helps us to maintain consistent configuration across the datacenter by using Host Profiles policies and also eliminates Manual host configuration/ Host Profile Policies captures the blue print of well known configured ESX host in environment and it also acts a reference host to configure other hosts in environment.  These policies capture the blueprint of a known, validated reference host configuration which is also called as “Golden Image”. The blue print contains the information about the networking, storage, security and other settings.