Hi,
There is no direct call.
TAG in the web client are not available in the standard API.
In others words the PowerCLI team has done a great job with get-vm and the parameter “TAG” which is very convenient.
Solution:
Create a feature request and ask the PowerCLI team to add “TAG” as a parameter to the get-template cmdlet.
Workaround:
I have created this function as a dirty workaround.
function Get-TemplateWithTag{
param(
$TagNameArray
)
process{
$AllTemplatesAndTag = get-template | foreach {($MyTemplate = $_)} | get-tagassignment | select-object @{name="Template";Expression={$MyTemplate}}, @{name="TagName";Expression={$_.tag.Name}},@{name="TagCategory";Expression={$_.tag.Category}}
$AllTemplateWithDuplicate = $AllTemplatesAndTag | foreach-object{
if ($TagNameArray -contains $_.TagName){
$_.Template
}
}
$AllTemplateWithoutDuplicate = $AllTemplateWithDuplicate | get-unique
$AllTemplateWithoutDuplicate
}
}
$TagNameArray = "VM Level","Datacenter01"
Get-TemplateWithTag -TagNameArray $TagNameArray
The output will be one or many Template objects. Only one template will be reported even if one template is associated to multiples tag name in the $TagNameArray
I am not using TAG object as a parameter.
It should be possible but in that case it will be necessary to check against TagName and TagCategory.
It is a workaround so i keep it simple.
Known limitation, it will not work well with a tag with an identical name in two separate category.
In my testlab i have the following tags:
Category Name
Location Datacenter01
Backup VM level
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