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vRO vCenter 6 Tagging plug-in

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Overview

This is a plug-in to handle vCenter tags.

It works with leveraging vCenter 6 vAPI. vCenter 6 is the first vCenter version providing a public API for tagging. Earlier versions only supported PowerCLI commandlets or private APIs (that James reverse engineered here : Native vRO vCenter Tagging - No Powershell).

 

See the video to see what it can do.

 

 

The plug-in was generated using the Dynamic Types plug-in generator package (check latest version in Flowgrab "All versions") and can be extended with it.

It can be used with vRealize Automation "Anything as a service" (For example attaching a tag to an object that would enable a given service).

 

Known limitations

The workflows are not checking if you attach a particular object type to a tag that has a parent category not supporting it.

The install workflow may fail to delete the resource element that were imported. It is not affecting the plug-in functionality but may affect a future upgrade. I have a bug opened about this with engineering. You can delete these resource elements with renaming them in the vCO client and deleting them.

 

I only tested it with vRO 6 + vCenter 6 (since vCenter 6 is required and since passing vCenter objects to the plug-in is likely a requirement if you need to tag vCenter objects).

 

Use at your own risk. I made this as a first step to learn how to use vAPI and provide native vCenter tag orchestration.

Download and installation instructions

The plug-in can be downloaded from Flowgrab


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