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You're reading from VMware vSphere 6.5 Cookbook Over 140 task-oriented recipes to install, configure, manage, and orchestrate various VMware vSphere 6.5 components

Product type Paperback

Published in Jan 2018

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781787127418

Length 574 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

Tools

vSphere

Concepts

Cloud Computing

Authors (3):

Abhilash G B

Meyenburg

Rajendran

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Table of Contents (22) Chapters

Title Page

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Contributors

Preface

1. Upgrading to vSphere 6.5 FREE CHAPTER

2. Greenfield Deployment of vSphere 6.5

3. Using vSphere Host Profiles

4. Using ESXi Image Builder

5. Using vSphere Auto Deploy

6. Using vSphere Standard Switches

7. Using vSphere Distributed Switches

8. Creating and Managing VMFS Datastore

9. Managing Access to the iSCSI and NFS Storage

10. Storage IO Control, Storage DRS, and Profile Driven Storage

11. Creating and Managing Virtual Machines

12. Configuring vSphere 6.5 High Availability

13. Configuring vSphere DRS, DPM, and VMware EVC

14. Upgrading and Patching using vSphere Update Manager

15. Using vSphere Certificate Manager Utility

16. Using vSphere Management Assistant

17. Performance Monitoring in a vSphere Environment

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Copying settings between Host Profiles

It is entirely possible in a large environment that you arrive at a configuration change that needs to be published across different sets of hosts or let's say, host clusters. Since a host or a cluster can only be attached to a single Host Profile at any point in time, there should be a way to publish configuration changes across clusters. And it wouldn't make any sense in duplicating Host Profiles whenever such a need arises. vSphere 6.5 Host Profiles will now let you copy settings from a Host Profile to one or more other Host Profiles.

The following flow chart shows a high—level overview of the whole procedure:

How to do it...

The following procedure will guide you through the steps involved in copying settings between Host Profiles:

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