In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

• Preparing a reference host
• Creating Host Profiles
• Attaching/detaching ESXi hosts to/from a Host Profile
• Performing host customizations
• Checking Host Profile compliance of ESXi host(s)
• Scheduling Host Profile compliance checks
• Remediating non-compliant ESXi host(s)
• Using Host Profiles to push a new configuration change
• Copying settings between Host Profiles
• Exporting Host Profiles
• Importing Host Profiles
• Duplicating Host Profiles