OpenManage Enterprise Integration for VMware vCenter Version 1.1 User's Guide

OMEVV Baseline Profile

A baseline profile allows you to capture the firmware version and maintain the required state for clusters by identifying any drift against the baseline.

To create a baseline profile, ensure to have firmware repository profile. It is recommended that you use homogeneous servers for the clusters being baselined. For more information on the best practices to create a cluster, see VMware documentation.

• Ensure that the firmware repository profile is created and status is successful before it is used for creating a baseline profile.
• If there is a change or update in the repository profile, the baseline profile is updated automatically.
• After the baseline profile is created, it triggers the drift detection job.
• If there is already a cluster that is associated to the baseline profile, newly created baseline profile overrides the associated cluster.
• Due to regular updates to the catalogs, you cannot use Dell Default Catalog repository profiles to baseline the vSAN clusters.