Checking Host Profile compliance of ESXi host(s)

To ascertain that the ESXi hosts in a vSphere environment adhere to the organization's configuration standard, they can be examined for compliance against a Host Profile extracted from a reference host that was configured to meet the organization's standard.

Getting ready

Before you could check the profile compliance of an ESXi host, it should be attached to the Host Profile. Read the instructions in the recipe, Attaching/Detaching ESXi hosts to/from Host Profile to achieve the same.

How to do it...

The following procedure will walk you through the steps involved in checking the profile compliance of ESXi hosts:

1. Log in to the vSphere Web Client and use the key combination Ctrl + Alt + 1 to navigate to the inventory home.
2. At the inventory home, click on Host Profiles to view all the profiles already created. 

 

3. Right-click on the Host Profile and click on Check Host Profile Compliance:

4. You should see a compliance check task completed against each of...