Mastering PowerCLI

Managing host profiles

In Chapter 3, Deploying vSphere Hosts we touched upon host profile concepts. In this section, we will go more in-depth on the topic. To manage host profiles, we can use the following cmdlets:

• Export-VMHostProfile
• Get-VMHostProfile
• Get-VMHostProfileRequiredInput
• Import-VMHostProfile
• Invoke-VMHostProfile
• New-VMHostProfile
• Remove-VMHostProfile
• Set-VMHostProfile
• Test-VMHostProfileCompliance

We have already checked how we can utilize the New-VMHostProfile, Get-VMHostProfile, and Invoke-VMHostProfile cmdlets.

Here is a set of examples to show you the preceding cmdlets:

Here are the explanations of the preceding cmdlets.

In the first Export-VMHostProfile ...