I've been tasked with checking out Host Profiles on vSphere 6. The main reason we're not using them in our v5.5 environment is because whenever you apply the host profile to a host to perform a remediation, no matter how insignificant the change, it requires the host to be in maintenance mode. That poses an administrative challenge in my environment.
So, I was stoked to read that vSphere 6 had updated Host Profiles to only require maintenance mode if the properties being set by the specified Host Profile require it. I'm thinking OK, now trivial changes like adding a port group to a vSwitch won't require the host to be in maintenance mode when trying to 'remediate' the host with a host profile that makes that type of low level change. Unfortunately though, I'm still getting the error "A host needs to be in maintenance mode before a host profile can be applied to it" whenever I try to apply a host profile to a host that is out of compliance, no matter how minuscule the change.
Has anyone else experienced this? Do I have something configured incorrectly?
vSphere 6: Updates to Host Profiles - VMware vSphere Blog - VMware Blogs