Some advanced configuration options are not supported with Host Profiles

Products

• VMware vSphere ESXi

Issue/Introduction

Unable to configure some advanced configuration options using host profiles. The configuration options are also not configured after you boot a stateless host that uses Auto Deploy.

These configuration options are not supported:

ESXi 5.0:

• Syslog.Local.DatastorePath
• Misc.CosCorefile
• Misc.SerialPort
• Migrate.Enabled
• Migrate.Vmknic
• FT.Vmknic
• Mem.HostLocalSwapDirEnabled
• Mem.HostLocalSwapDir
  
• Vpx.Vpxa.config.log.level
• All options starting with Config.Defaults.cpuidMask

ESXi 5.1:

• Syslog.Local.DatastorePath
• Misc.CosCorefile
• Misc.HordeEnabled
• Misc.SerialPort
• Migrate.Enabled
• Migrate.Vmknic
• FT.Vmknic
• Mem.HostLocalSwapDirEnabled
• Mem.HostLocalSwapDir
• Vpx.Vpxa.config.log.level
• UserVars.ESXiShellTimeOut
• UserVars.PXEBootEnabled
• All options starting with Config.Defaults.cpuidMask
• All options starting with Misc.SIOControlFlag

ESXi 5.5:

• Syslog.Local.DatastorePath
• Misc.CosCorefile
• Misc.HordeEnabled
• Misc.SerialPort
• Migrate.Enabled
• Migrate.Vmknic
• FT.Vmknic
• Mem.HostLocalSwapDirEnabled
• Mem.HostLocalSwapDir
• Vpx.Vpxa.config.log.level
• UserVars.ESXiShellTimeOut
• UserVars.PXEBootEnabled
• Config.Etc.motd
• All options starting with Config.Defaults.cpuidMask
• All options starting with Misc.SIOControlFlag

ESXi 6.0:

• Syslog.Local.DatastorePath
• Misc.CosCorefile
• Misc.HordeEnabled
• Misc.SerialPort
• Migrate.Enabled
• Migrate.Vmknic
• FT.Vmknic
• Mem.HostLocalSwapDirEnabled
• Mem.HostLocalSwapDir
• UserVars.ESXiShellTimeOut
• UserVars.PXEBootEnabled

ESXi 6.5:

• Syslog.Local.DatastorePath
• Misc.CosCorefile
• Misc.HordeEnabled
• Misc.SerialPort
• Migrate.Enabled
• Migrate.Vmknic
• FT.Vmknic
• Mem.VMOverheadGrowthLimit
• UserVars.PXEBootEnabled
• Misc.HeartbeatPanicTimeout
• Config.Defaults.vGPU.consolidation
• Security.PasswordQualityControl
• All options starting with Config.Defaults.cpuidMask
• All options starting with Misc.SIOControlFlag
• All options starting with Syslog.loggers.vmamqpd
• All options starting with Syslog.loggers.vprobed
• All options starting with UserVars.Rmq

Resolution

To resolve this issue, perform one of these tasks to configure the advanced configuration options:

• Select the host configuration tab for the host in vSphere Client.
• Use ESXCLI on the host.

Note: These options require a management agent restart to be effective. For more information, see Restarting the Management agents on an ESX or ESXi Server (1003490)

• Mem.HostLocalSwapDirEnabled
• Mem.HostLocalSwapDir