topic Using vCloud Suite SDK for tag management on vsphere 5.5 or earlier in vSphere Management SDK Discussions

Using vCloud Suite SDK for tag management on vsphere 5.5 or earlier

sonalg — Fri, 03 Nov 2017 11:23:26 GMT

Hello,

I researched alot about this topic and found out that 5.5 and earlier versions of vSphere have tagging capability but they do not provide public API for tag management so we won’t be able to access those tags using SDK versions 5.5 and earlier. But now since vCloud suite SDK provides this capability, can we use this SDK to target it for vcenter 5.5 and earlier? I know PowerCLI is another option, but I do not want to use automation SDK and want to stick to Java management SDK.

Re:Using vCloud Suite SDK for tag management on vsphere 5.5 or earlier

SiddharthaSing1 — Wed, 15 Nov 2017 01:17:41 GMT

No, vCloud Suite SDK can not be used as Tagging API is not public in vSphere 5.5 . Only option is PowerCLI as it calls the private API.

Re:Using vCloud Suite SDK for tag management on vsphere 5.5 or earlier

sonalg — Wed, 15 Nov 2017 06:52:37 GMT

Ok Thanks. But For linux I think even PowerCLI is not an option so there is no way out.

Re:Using vCloud Suite SDK for tag management on vsphere 5.5 or earlier

SiddharthaSing1 — Wed, 15 Nov 2017 17:31:22 GMT

You can try PowerShell Core.

https://labs.vmware.com/flings/powercli-core

http://powercli-core.readthedocs.io/en/latest/intro.html

https://github.com/vmware/powerclicore

Re:Using vCloud Suite SDK for tag management on vsphere 5.5 or earlier

sonalg — Thu, 16 Nov 2017 05:33:19 GMT

but this is not production ready yet as I understand.

Re:Using vCloud Suite SDK for tag management on vsphere 5.5 or earlier

SiddharthaSing1 — Fri, 17 Nov 2017 00:27:45 GMT

Yes. VMware Engineering team is working on this.