Affinity Rule and Tags

[jdefilippis]

Hi All, 

I'm looking for a way to automatically assign a VM to a VM/Host rule.  My thoughts was to use powercli and create a script that adds the VM by the tag, however i'm looking for a more automated method.  Possibly a spec file or another way.  

Background:

10 Host within a cluster, 5 of the host live in our DR site and the other 5 within Prodcution.  This is setup as a VMware metro cluster for failover reasons.  Therefore when we build a vm, the vm will need to have an affinity rule to keep them on the Prod hosts.  I'm trying to figure out a way to automate this.

thanks!

[depping]

Yes this is possible, we have multiple customers who actually use TAGS and PowerCLI to automate the affinity groups membership, and example can be found here:

https://rudimartinsen.com/2017/09/08/automating-drs-groups-with-powercli/

In German, but you will probably understand what they are referring to:

https://mycloudrevolution.com/de/2017/04/19/drs-affinity-rules-by-tag/

[bryanvaneeden]

You could also use the Custrom Attributes for this in the same fashion. Tags is a lot easier though.