Copy VM Tags From VMs

[pamiller21]

Is there a way to take the tags from <VM NAME> and copy them to <VM NAME>_replica?

[LucD]

Yes

[pamiller21]

lol any advice on how to conquer this? I am at a loss on how to do this today.

[LucD]

Use the TagAssignment cmdlets.
Something like this for example.

$vmName = 'MyVM'
$copyVm = "$($vmName)_replica"

Get-VM -Name $vmName | Get-TagAssignment |
ForEach-Object -Process {
  New-TagAssignment -Entity $copyVm -Tag $_.Tag
}

. 

[pamiller21]

That is simple, can I point this at all my VMs and somehow array through all them?

[LucD]

Sure, just leave out the Name parameter on the Get-VM

[pamiller21]

I am running this:

$vmName = Get-VM

$copyVm = "$($vmName)_replica"

Get-VM -Name $vmName | Get-TagAssignment | ForEach-Object -Process { New-TagAssignment -Entity $copyVm -Tag $_.Tag }

And when I get to the $copyVm = "$($vmName)_replica" part it combines all the VMs together in one line.  The next part then looks for a VM named everything.

[LucD · Accepted solution]

I meant like this

Get-VM | Get-TagAssignment |
ForEach-Object -Process {
  New-TagAssignment -Entity "$($_.Entity.Name)_replica" -Tag $_.Tag
}