An administrator wants to clone the configuration of an existing ESXi6.x host to a new group of hosts, but does not want to clone storage specific settings. Which action would accomplish this?

Host Profiles organize configuration into discrete sub-profiles, each covering a specific category such as networking, security, or storage. Removing the storage sub-profile permanently deletes those storage configuration entries from the profile, ensuring they are not transferred when the profile is applied to target hosts. This allows the new hosts to retain their own independent storage configurations while inheriting all other settings from the cloned profile.

Reverting a profile rolls back unsaved edits to the last saved state of the profile but does not selectively remove a sub-profile category, so storage settings would still be present and applied to target hosts.

Unchecking a sub-profile may suppress it from a specific compliance check view but does not permanently remove it from the profile definition, meaning storage settings could still be included when the profile is applied to other hosts.

VM Storage Policies define per-VM storage placement requirements based on capabilities and are entirely separate from host configuration profiles; disabling them has no effect on which host-level sub-profiles are included during profile cloning.