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2V0-621D · Question #246

An administrator wants to clone the configuration of an existing ESXi 6.x host to a new group of hosts, but does not want to clone storage specific settings. Which action would accomplish this?

The correct answer is B. Remove sub-profile. To clone an ESXi 6.x host's configuration while specifically excluding storage settings, an administrator should modify the Host Profile to remove the storage-related sub-profile.

Section 5 – Administer and Protect vSphere 6.x Resources

Question

An administrator wants to clone the configuration of an existing ESXi 6.x host to a new group of hosts, but does not want to clone storage specific settings. Which action would accomplish this?

Options

  • AUncheck sub-profile
  • BRemove sub-profile
  • CRevert profile
  • DDisable VM Storage Profile

How the community answered

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  • A
    4% (1)
  • B
    76% (19)
  • C
    4% (1)
  • D
    16% (4)

Why each option

To clone an ESXi 6.x host's configuration while specifically excluding storage settings, an administrator should modify the Host Profile to remove the storage-related sub-profile.

AUncheck sub-profile

While unchecking individual settings within a profile is possible, "removing" the entire storage sub-profile is a more definitive action to ensure those settings are permanently excluded from the profile's definition for cloning.

BRemove sub-profileCorrect

To prevent cloning storage-specific settings with a Host Profile, an administrator must edit the profile and explicitly remove or deselect the storage configuration sub-profile from its definition. This action ensures that storage configurations are not included when the profile is applied to other hosts.

CRevert profile

Reverting a profile means discarding recent changes made to the profile itself, not selectively modifying its content to exclude specific settings.

DDisable VM Storage Profile

Disabling a VM Storage Profile is related to virtual machine storage policy-based management (SPBM) and does not affect excluding host-level storage configurations from a Host Profile.

Concept tested: Host Profile customization and exclusion

Source: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/6.5/com.vmware.vsphere.hostprofiles.doc/GUID-9C3E5503-4B6A-41BA-9549-3F258F2188E6.html

Topics

#Host Profiles#ESXi configuration#Storage sub-profile

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