Automation

Hi,

I am using powercli 5.5.R1 and want to sign tags against VM in a vCenter 5.1 environment.
Retrieving tags with get-tag works fine but I cannot assign tag.

new-tagassignment -tag $mytag -Entity $vm returns an error that states the specified tag with id "InventoryServiceTag-<somenumber> was not found.

Does this not work against 5.1 environments?

Tagging works in both 5.1 and 5.5.

From the error message, is it possible the Tag you are trying to assign has not been created in the 5.1 environment yet?

The error states that the tag with ID was not found but when I run 'get-tag mytagname | select id' it returns the same id as the one the error is complaining about.
This tells me that the tag exists. Tried this for several other tags but same issue

Try this

$myTag = Get-Tag "Server 2003"

$myVM = Get-VM

foreach ($vm in $myVM) {

    New-TagAssignment -Tag "Server 2003" -Entity $VM.name

}

For those interested, VMware Support has told me that there is an issue with this if vCenters are configured in linked mode.
This should be fixed in an upcoming release