I have a STIG that I am working on, and I want to be able to take the configuration of one ESXi host, and transfer that to a completely different host. I've used Get-VMhostfirmware to backup and then Set-VMhostfirmware to restore the config on the same host, so I thought that maybe I could force the config onto a completely different host. I tried to disconnect a host, and then add it with its IP address only, then using Get-VMhostfirmware to back it up, and then disconnecting it, and then adding the new host with the the static IP address of the host that I just took the backup of and restoring it that way, but it does not work.
The only solution that I can think of is using host profiles, but I'm wondering is there another cmdlet that I could use, or is there some trick that I could use with Get/Set-VMhostfirmware that would allow me to push the config of one host onto a completely different host?