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How to Create and apply Host Profile on all Host in a cluster on vSphere 6.5

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Need Best Practice to be followed for  Host Profile Creation/Attachment and applied to get all the Host Compliance  in a Cluster
Please help to get this done on vSphere 6.7 and what all Licences are required to this feature available
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1. Make sure ALL hosts have the same physical hardware and are identical.
2. Configure a single host with all our settings and configuration - the baseline.
3. Apply to other hosts.

see this walk through

https://www.altaro.com/vmware/an-introduction-to-vmware-host-profiles/

 vSphere Enterprise Plus licensing required.

(do NOT APPLY to Hosts which have Production VMs!)
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Thanks Andrew for your great help and quick response
Whats should be best method here to choose Host for create host profile from cluster so that same can be attached on cluster and can be applied on all other host in cluster ? is it master we need to choose or any host from cluster?
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Pick a host, any host, create a profile, and then apply to each host of cluster.
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any way if we can do complience check of host then apply only std rquired config using hostprofile
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Thanks

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