NSX-T tag management

[EricPedersen]

I was hoping NSX-T tagging would have improved with 3.0 but the tagging feature is so rudimentary compared to vSphere. Tags aren't even really part of the policy API - they are just text strings applied to VMs. 

I have a script to push our NSX tags into vSphere to make it easier to see what's going on, such as what VMs a tag is applied to. How do others manage tags? Do you do all the tagging through the NSX-T GUI? Do you tags VMs in vSphere and then push them into NSX-T with the API?

[mauricioamorim · Accepted solution]

There is a new view for tags under inventory on NSX-T 3.0 that is an improvement. Are your needs regarding tagging related to the UI or API?

In Policy API you can see all VMs with a certain tag using a GET https://nsxapp-01a.corp.local/policy/api/v1/infra/tags/effective-resources?tag=test123

I tried this and it returns all VMs that have the tag test123.

You can also list all tag with a GET https://nsxapp-01a.corp.local/policy/api/v1/infra/tags/

If you give some more details on what you are trying to achieve we may be able to help.

[EricPedersen]

Thanks for sending that over. I don't believe that API call existed in 2.5. I had to pull the details for all of the VMs and extract the assigned tags to determine what VMs had a specific tag. This is much better!