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The steps for attaching a baseline or baseline group to a VM with a guest OS installed are
similar, but let's walk through the process anyway. A very useful baseline to point out is named
VMware Tools Upgrade To Match Host. This baseline is a default baseline that is dei ned upon
installation of VUM, and its purpose is to help you identify which VMs have guest OSes run-
ning outdated versions of VMware Tools. As you'll see in Chapter 7, using VMware Tools is
an important piece of optimizing your guest OSes to run in a virtualized environment, and
it's great that VUM can help identify which VMs have guest OSes with an outdated version of
VMware Tools installed.
Perform the following steps to attach a baseline to a datacenter so that it applies to all the
objects under the datacenter:
1.
Launch the vSphere Web Client if it is not already running.
2.
Switch to the VMs And Templates inventory view from the Web Client's home screen.
3.
Select a datacenter object from the inventory on the left.
4.
From the contents pane in the middle, click the Monitor tab followed by the Update
Manager tab.
5.
Click the Attach button in the top right-hand corner of the Update Manager tab's panel.
This opens the Attach Baseline Or Group dialog box.
6.
Click to select the VMware Tools Upgrade To Match Host upgrade baseline, and then
click OK.
In the event that you need to detach a baseline from an object, highlight the baseline in
question, and use the Detach button just above the left corner of the list. Figure 4.20 shows
the Detach button about half-way down on the left. This link is visible only when a baseline is
highlighted.
Figure 4.20
Detaching baselines
Clicking the Detach link then takes you to a screen that also allows you to detach the base-
line from other objects to which it is attached. Figure 4.21 shows how VUM allows you to detach
the selected baseline or baseline group from other objects at the same time (it does not allow
you to detach baselines from objects that have inherited the baseline, only those that have been
