Associating Host Profiles with ESXi hosts or clusters

The whole purpose of creating Host Profiles is to automate the large-scale configuration of ESXi hosts. However, before you can apply a host profile, there should be a way to associate the host(s) with it, which is done by attaching the ESXi hosts to the Host Profile.

How to do it...

The following steps will help you attach/detach hosts to/from Host Profiles:

1. Connect to the vCenter Server using the HTML5 client.
2. Navigate to Menu | Policies and Profiles.
3. On the Policies and Profiles screen, go to Host Profiles.

4. Right-click on the desired Host Profile and click on Attach/Detach Hosts and Clusters...:

5. In the Attach/Detach window, use the checkbox to select (attach...