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Creating host profiles of ESXi 5.0 hosts might fail with the error message: [Errno- 2] Name or service not known (2010068)

Attempts to create host profiles of ESXi 5.0 hosts might fail when the process for creating host profiles is unable to resolve the hostname and IP address of the host by relying upon DNS for hostname and IP address lookup.
An error message similar to the following is displayed:

Call"HostProfileManager.CreateProfile" for object "HostProfileManager" on vCenter Server"<Server_Name> failed. Error extracting indication configuation: [Errno- 2] Name or service not known.

This issue is resolved in VMware ESXi 5.0 Patch ESXi500-201112401-SG.

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