vSphere Tags

[NoTr3x]

Hi,

i have to solve a problem.

My vCenter is full of tags and now it's time for an automatic deployment. So i have to read out the tags. But i only find VcTag.key. In the Logs it returned a null.

I saw from the vcoteam, the plugin, but only to set tags, my goal is to read out it and convert it to strings.

Can you give my any advice?

Thanks!

[iiliev]

Hi,

You have several options:

• Wait until the tagging plug-in is updated to provide tag querying functionality (not sure if this is in the plug-in's roadmap)
• Use PowerShell / PowerCLI
• Use vAPI plug-in that ships out of the box with vRO 7.x. It contains some example tag-related workflows, like list all tags/categories or get a tag by its ID, and you can easily write your own custom code if more complex tag queries/operations are needed.

[Hazenet]

I have a package for working with vSphere Tags, using the vAPI plugin (which is part of the default vRO).

Drop me a direct message here, and I can share it with you (unable to share it completely public, unfortunately)

[NoTr3x]

Your message in my inbox is broken.

[Mnemonic]

Maybe you can use this guide as inspiration: https://vm.knutsson.it/2017/01/assigning-vcenter-tags-using-vrealize-orchestrator/