Automating Host Profile Host Customisations From Answer File

[nicholas1982]

Hi All,

I'm starting to provision hosts using auto deploy, the auto deploy profile is a stageful install, with a single management vmk0 and then added to vcenter.

We then apply a second host profile which creates about 6 vmk interfaces, add to a windows AD and creates a new local ESXi user account.

The second host profile was created from a master known good host for that cluster, when attaching the profile to a new host I'm having to copy and paste IP, Subnets, user accounts manually.

I was wondering if I could apply the profile with Powershell with some sort of answer file.

[daphnissov]

See if something like this is good enough to get you started.

[LucD]

You should be able to do that.
Check with the Get-VMHostProfileRequiredInput if you can get all the required input data into a hash table. (start with the code as shown in Example 1).

If that is not the case, you will need a script that ultimately calls the UpdateHostProfile method.

See my Change The Root Password In Hosts And Host Profiles post.