The whole purpose of using Host Profiles is to effortlessly push the required configuration on to the ESXi hosts without the need for a manual configuration activity per ESXi host. This would not just come in handy when you deploy a new infrastructure but also when you want to push a new configuration to all the ESXi hosts.
The following flow chart shows a high— level overview of the whole procedure:
The following procedure will guide you through all the steps that have to be performed on the vCenter server to push a new configuration change, using Host Profiles:
Connect to the vCenter server managing the reference ESXi host and make the intended changes on the reference host. This can also be achieved by directly connecting to the ESXi host using the vSphere Web Client. However, since all the Host Profile activities are done using the vCenter server, I would suggest using it to avoid switching between the clients.
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