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

[sonalg]

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.  

[SiddharthaSing1]

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. 

[sonalg]

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

[SiddharthaSing1]

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

[sonalg]

but this is not production ready yet as I understand.

[SiddharthaSing1]

Yes. VMware Engineering team is working on this.