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Backing Up ESX and vSphere Host Configurations with the Host Profile Feature

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[fa icon="pencil'] Posted by Lewan Solutions [fa icon="calendar"] May 5, 2010

Back before vSphere, some very creative people/companies created utilities to backup all of the host configuration on your ESX servers. Things like Networking configuration, vSwitch configuration, Port groups, etc. Now with vSphere, how do you protect this information in case of a host failure/reinstall? Answer: Host Profiles.

It's not really a "backup" per se, yet Host Profiles greatly simplify host configuration management in scale-out deployments through user-defined configuration policies. You can use profile policies to eliminate per-host manual host configuration and efficiently maintain configuration consistency and correctness across the entire datacenter.

An excellent recent post with additional links and such about Host Profiles can be found here:
http://communities.vmware.com/message/1376450;jsessionid=4944184E8F195FF105DF0BCF31114226

A great "how-to" type of blog post with Host Profiles can be found here:
http://malaysiavm.com/blog/esx-host-profiles-with-vsphere/

Hope it helps!

Topics: VMware, How To Guide

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