Editing host profiles in vCenter fails with error - General profile failure occured.

Products

• VMware vCenter Server

Issue/Introduction

• On Host profile available on the vCenter, unable to edit the properties of the profile.

• /var/log/vmware/vpxd/vpxd.log logs in vCenter shows the below error loggings:

YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ warning vpxd[07147] [Originator@6876 sub=profileUtil opID=#######-#######-auto-####-h5:########-##] Role Admin on host is different to the one in host profile
YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ error vpxd[07147] [Originator@6876 sub=moHostProfile opID=#######-#######-auto-####-h5:########-##] [Update]: Failed to update host profile  with: Fault cause: vim.fault.InvalidProfileReferenceHost
-->
YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ warning vpxd[07147] [Originator@6876 sub=Vmomi opID=#######-#######-auto-####-h5:########-##] VMOMI activation LRO failed; hostprofile-###, vim.profile.host.HostProfile.update, ,
{stm: {0.1 : 8085'>, >, id: 7810283, state(in/out): 3/1}, session: <524e4b50-bc63-b1ec-2575-c634c56c427d, , >, req: {POST, /sdk}}>, 

YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ error vpxd[07147] [Originator@6876 sub=Default opID=#######-#######-auto-####-h5:########-##] [VpxLRO] -- ERROR task-74370 -- hostprofile-###-- vim.profile.host.HostProfile.update: :vmodl.fault.SystemError
--> Result:
--> (vmodl.fault.SystemError) {
-->    faultCause = (vmodl.MethodFault) null,
-->    faultMessage = (vmodl.LocalizableMessage) [
-->       (vmodl.LocalizableMessage) {
-->          key = "com.vmware.vim.vpxd.profile.ProfileUpdateError",
-->          arg = ,
-->          message = 
-->       }
-->    ],
-->    reason = ""
-->    msg = ""
--> }
--> Args:

Environment

vCenter server 7.x
vCenter server 8.x

Cause

This can occur due to compatibility issues.

• A Host Profile extracted from a 7.0.2 host cannot be used by a 7.0.3 hosts due to privilege added in ESXi 7.0.3. 
• A Host Profile extracted from a 8.0.2 host cannot be used by a 8.0.3 hosts due to privilege added in ESXi 8.0.3. 

 These changes prevent the Profile from updating properly.

Resolution

Extract a host profile from the most updated version of the ESXi host and proceed to edit this profile.