VMworld: Host Profiles

I just attended the Technical Deep Dive on Host Profiles (VM3433).  I learned a couple of interesting things that I’d not seen before:

  • Only 1 profile can be applied per cluster.
  • Logging on the host is to the file “pyVmomiserver.log”
  • Things not covered by Host Profiles are:
  • Licensing
  • vDS policy configuration (however you can do non-policy vDS stuff)
  • iSCSI
  • Multipathing

Unfortunately there isn’t much documentation on Host Profiles at the moment, however the speakers promised a Whitepaper would be delivered soon.  I’ll post a link if I can get hold of it.

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