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Figure 3.24
Users have a num-
ber of options when
exporting events
out of vCenter
Server to a CSV fi le.
Working with Host Profi les
Host proi les are a powerful feature of vCenter Server. As you'll see in upcoming chapters, there
can be a bit of coni guration involved in setting up an ESXi host. Although vCenter Server and
the vSphere Web Client make it easy to perform these coni guration tasks, it's easy to overlook
something. Additionally, making all these changes manually for multiple hosts can be time con-
suming and even more error prone. That's where host proi les can help.
A host proi le is essentially a collection of all the various coni guration settings for an ESXi
host. This includes settings such as NIC assignments, virtual switches, storage coni guration,
date and time, and more. By attaching a host proi le to an ESXi host, you can then compare the
compliance of that host with the settings outlined in the host proi le. If the host is compliant,
then you know its settings are the same as the settings in the host proi le. If the host is not com-
pliant, then you can enforce the settings in the host proi le to make it compliant. This provides
administrators with a way not only to verify consistent settings across ESXi hosts but also to
quickly and easily apply settings to new ESXi hosts.
To work with host proi les, select the Home button and then click the Host Proi les icon.
Figure 3.25 shows the Host Proi les view in vCenter Server, where a host proi le has been cre-
ated but not yet attached to any hosts.
Figure 3.25
Host profi les pro-
vide a mechanism
for checking and
enforcing compli-
ance with a specifi c
confi guration.
