The management and configuration of vSphere's Auto Deploy and Host Profiles features were covered in detail in this chapter, as part of Objective 8.1 and Objective 8.2 of the certification exam.
In Chapter 9, Configure and Administer vSphere and vCenter Availability Solutions, we will be covering the new vSphere HA cluster feature (Objective 9.1 and Objective 9.2) introduced in vSphere 6.5 and available for the vCSA only.