![]() NAME Apply-VMHostProfile SYNOPSIS Applies a host profile to the specified host or cluster. SYNTAX Apply-VMHostProfile [-Entity] [-ApplyOnly] [-RunAsync] [-Server DESCRIPTION Applies a host profile to the specified host or cluster. The host or cluster must be in a maintenance mode. If no v alue is provided to the -Profile parameter, the profile currently associated with the host or cluster is applied. PARAMETERS -Entity Specify hosts or clusters to which you want to apply the virtual machine host profile. Required? true Position? 1 Default value Accept pipeline input? true (ByValue) Accept wildcard characters? true -Profile Specify the host profile you want to apply. Required? false Position? named Default value Accept pipeline input? true (ByValue) Accept wildcard characters? true -Variable Specify a hash table object that provides values for the host profile required variables. Required? false Position? named Default value Accept pipeline input? true (ByValue) Accept wildcard characters? false -AssociateOnly Indicate whether to associate the host profile to the specified host or cluster without applying it. Required? false Position? named Default value Accept pipeline input? false Accept wildcard characters? false -ApplyOnly Indicate whether to apply the host profile to the specified virtual machine host without associating it. Required? false Position? named Default value Accept pipeline input? false Accept wildcard characters? false -RunAsync Indicate that the command returns immediately without waiting for the task to complete. In this mode, the outpu t of the cmdlet is a Task object. For more information about the -RunAsync parameter run " help About_RunAsync" in the vSphere PowerCLI console. Required? false Position? named Default value Accept pipeline input? false Accept wildcard characters? false -Server Specify the vSphere servers on which you want to run the cmdlet. If no value is given to this parameter, the co mmand runs on the default servers. For more information about default servers, see the description of Connect-V IServer. Required? false Position? named Default value Accept pipeline input? false Accept wildcard characters? true -WhatIf Indicate that the cmdlet is run only to display the changes that would be made and actually no objects are modi fied. Required? false Position? named Default value Accept pipeline input? false Accept wildcard characters? false -Confirm If the value is $true, indicates that the cmdlet asks for confirmation before running. If the value is $false, the cmdlet runs without asking for user confirmation. Required? false Position? named Default value $true Accept pipeline input? false Accept wildcard characters? false This cmdlet supports the common parameters: Verbose, Debug, ErrorAction, ErrorVariable, WarningAction, WarningVariable, OutBuffer and OutVariable. For more information, type, "get-help about_commonparameters". INPUTS OUTPUTS VMHost or Cluster or System.Collections.Hashtable NOTES If there are missing values for the required variables, a hash table with the names of the required variables a nd the current or default values is returned. Otherwise, all directly affected host and cluster objects are ret urned. If the cmdlet is run for a cluster with the -AssociateOnly parameter set, only the cluster object is ret urned, but not its hosts. -------------- Example 1 -------------- C:\PS>Apply-VMHostProfile -AssociateOnly -Entity $cluster -Profile $profile Associates the specified profile to all hosts in the specified cluster. -------------- Example 2 -------------- C:\PS>Apply-VMHostProfile -Entity $host -Profile $profile Associates and applies the specified profile to the specified host. -------------- Example 3 -------------- C:\PS>Get-VMHost | Apply-VMHostProfile -ApplyOnly -Profile $profile Applies the specified profile to all specified hosts. -------------- Example 4 -------------- C:\PS>Get-VMHost | Apply-VMHostProfile -AssociateOnly -profile $profile Asscociates the specified profile to all specified hosts. -------------- Example 5 -------------- C:\PS>Apply-VMHostProfile $host Applies the associated host's profile to the host. -------------- Example 6 -------------- C:\PS>$requireInput = Apply-VMHostProfile $host -Profile $profile; $requireInput['network.hostPortGroup["key-vim-profile-host-HostPortgroupProfile-VMkernel"].ipConfig.IpAddressPolicy .address'] = '192.168.0.1'; $requireInput['network.hostPortGroup["key-vim-profile-host-HostPortgroupProfile-VMkernel"].ipConfig.IpAddressPolicy .subnetmask'] = '255.255.255.0'; Apply-VMHostProfile $host -Profile $profile -Variable $requireInput; Applies a profile to host but first assigns values to all required values. RELATED LINKS Online version: http://www.vmware.com/support/developer/PowerCLI/PowerCLI501/html/Apply-VMHostProfile.html Export-VMHostProfile Get-VMHostProfile Import-VMHostProfile New-VMHostProfile Remove-VMHostProfile Set-VMHostProfile Test-VMHostProfileCompliance |