I have tried the host profile method but i cant get that to work either. How did you resolve it?
EDIT - This is the error message i receive when i create a host profile
call "hostprofilemanager.generateconfigtasklist" for object "hostprofilemanager" on vcenter server "ourvmcenterserver.domain.com.au failed. unexpected error updating task config sepc: unknown
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