VMware VS4-ENT-PL-A - vSphere Enterprise Plus Setup Manual page 222

vSphere Installation and Setup
Configure the Proof of Concept Reference Host
You can customize the first ESXi host that you boot for your environment and create a host profile. You can
set up Auto Deploy to provision other target hosts with that host profile. The ESXi host you create the host
profile from is considered your reference host or template host.
How you configure the reference host depends on what you want to do.
Shared settings
Host-specific settings
Auto Deploy applies all common settings from the host profile to all target hosts. If you set up the host
profile to ask for user input, all hosts provisioned with that host profile come up in maintenance mode. You
must reapply the host profile or reset host customizations to be prompted for the host-specific information.
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vSphere Web Client Host Profiles UI to work with host customizations.
Prerequisites
Make sure your system meets the requirements in the preinstallation checklist. See
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Preinstallation Checklist,"
Perform all preceding proof of concept setup tasks. See
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page 212 for the complete list.
Procedure
1 Use the vSphere Web Client to connect to the vCenter Server system.
In this proof of concept setup, the vCenter Server system is localhost.
2 Click Hosts and Clusters and select the host that Auto Deploy added to the first datacenter.
3 Configure the host.
The rest of the proof of concept setup assumes that you configure at least one setting that is different for
different hosts.
Configuration
Networking
Storage
Time settings
Security
Authentication
DNS and routing
Other
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Specify settings that all hosts share and save a host profile for the host.
Customize hosts by setting up the host profile to prompt for user input for a
limited number of options such as a static IP address. Host customizations
are saved when you save the host profile. See
vSphere Web Client," on page 197.
on page 212.
Description
Configure the following networking components.
Base virtual switch and management port group for VMkernel.
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Storage network port group for VMkernel.
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Virtual machine networking port group.
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Any additional virtual switches and port groups.
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Distributed switches, if necessary (transfer port groups to distributed
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switches if you use them).
Configure shared storage.
Configure your time settings.
Configure the security profile.
Configure authentication.
If necessary, configure DNS and route settings.
Configure advanced settings or any other settings as required in the target
environment.
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"Auto Deploy Proof of Concept Setup,"
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