I'm trying to read/edit tags associated with a virtual machine by using the vsphere sdk (with pyvmomi cause I prefer python, our VSphere has version 5.1). The vm object has a field "tag" which should contain the tag - but in fact it contains the custom attribute, not the tag.
A simple code excerpt:
from pyVim.connect import SmartConnect, Disconnect
def tags(vm):
if hasattr(vm, 'childEntity'):
vmList = vm.childEntity
for c in vmList:
tags(c)
else:
print vm.name
for k in vm.tag:
print k
def main():
si = SmartConnect(host="<host>", user="<user>", pwd="<password>", port=<port>)
content = si.RetrieveContent()
datacenter = content.rootFolder.childEntity[0]
vmFolder = datacenter.vmFolder
vmList = vmFolder.childEntity
for vm in vmList:
tags(vm)
if __name__ == "__main__":
main()
This code prints the custom attributes of the VMs (which is a bit surprising because of the naming of fields like vm.tag), but I'm looking for the tags and categories. Where can I find this information?
Mathias
