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Jhel
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quick question: possible to configure an ESXi 5.1 host via an ESXi 5.5 Host Profile?

I'm learning to use VUM, started with 2 ESXi 5.5 hosts but am now also installing an ESXi 5.1 host to have the ability to try out ESXi upgrades, and patching.

Can I use an ESXi 5.5 Host Profile to configure the ESXi 5.1 host, or is this only possible the other way around, or are they not compatible at all and do I have to configure the new host from scratch?

TIA,

JH

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zXi_Gamer
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It breaks down to this simplest form. Host profile is nothing but a configuration file which sets the esx.conf value and in turn does all the configs you wanted. But the ESXi image on the other hand is based on the auto-deploy part.

It is here you mention which image you want the ESXi to be applied and once the image has been applied, the configs are taken from the hostprofile.

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Jhel
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Ehhh.. Can't say I can follow you 100%  Smiley Happy  Got some more learning to do I guess.

What I was trying to accomplish was:

- manually installing ESXi 5.1 host + only configuring management network

- adding the 5.1 host to vCenter Server

- attaching the Host Profile that I created based on an ESXi 5.5 host to quickly configure the ESXi5.1 host

I now actually confirmed myself that that last step doesn't work (error that "host profile is incompatible").

So this basically means that a "downlevel" client has to be configured completely manually? Or use some scripting method (which wouldn't be worth it in this particular one-off case)?

JH

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