Host Management Considerations

The ESXi hosts are the core of the environment that is being managed. Therefore, it is vitally important that they are properly managed. Consider the following installation and configuration practices:

• Depending on the plan for host installations, many different methods can be used to install components in the VMware Integrated OpenStack design. When deploying a large number of hosts, scripted installations, or using VMware vSphere Auto Deploy™, can help reduce overhead, deployment times, and the chance of configuration errors.

Whenever possible, automate post-installation tasks.

Use host profiles to finish the configuration of hosts, once installed. Host profiles provide the following benefits:

Are faster than manual configuration.

Are less error-prone than manual configuration.

Can be used for compliance monitoring.

Reduce the need to develop custom post-installation scripts.