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Forum How to access VMWare vCenter Tags

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How to access VMWare vCenter Tags

ridedasnow25 over 6 years ago

We are looking to find the Tags attached to the VM servers from VMWare vCenter. We are running vCenter 5.5.

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ridedasnow25 over 6 years ago +3 verified

We ended up performing an automatic database export of VM Tags from vSphere vCenter 5.5 and 6.0, and then we are periodically importing that .csv into the Orion SolarWinds database after creating custom…
brscott over 4 years ago in reply to serena +3

It would be helpful to have the VMware tags in the solarwinds VMAN database. Many people that use vmware tags use them to organize the VM's in ways that would also be used in Orion to organize nodes.…
jwester over 6 years ago +1

I asked the same question 2 years ago (VMAN 6.2). It's probably not implemented yet. Perhaps because accessing tags through any API is really a pain .

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