How to do it...

The following procedure will walk you through the steps involved in pushing/publishing new configuration changes to the ESXi hosts attached to a Host Profile.

1. Make the necessary configuration change to a reference host.

1. Right-click on the Host Profile and select the option, Copy Settings from Host...:

1. On the Copy settings from host window, choose the host the changes were made on in the first step and click OK:

1. You should see an Update host profile task complete successfully in the Recent Tasks pane:

1. Run a Host Profile compliance check using the instructions in the recipe, Checking Host Profile compliance of ESXi host(s).
2. Remediate the non-compliant ESXi host using the instructions in the recipe, Remediating non-compliant ESXi hosts, to push the new configuration change.