Specifications

Basic System Administration
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To add a custom attribute
1 ChooseAdministration>CustomAttributes.
ThisoptionisnotavailablewhenconnectedonlytoanESXServer.
2AddacustomattributeandclickAdd.
Theattributeisaddedtothelistofvirtualmachinecharacteristics.
3Tochangetheattributename,clickintheNamefieldandtypethenameyouwant

toassigntotheattribute.
4Enterthevaluesforthecustomattribute.
a Selecttheobject(onelevelupthehierarchy)thatcontainstheobjectstowhich
youwanttoapplytheattribute.
Forexample,ifyouwanttoenterattributevaluesformanagedhosts,selectthe
datacenterandtheHoststab
foralistofhosts.
bForeachmanagedhostorvirtualmachine,clickthenewattribute’scolumn.
Intheinformationpanel,thenewattributeisaddedtotheheader.
cTypetheattributevaluethatisappropriateforeachmanagedhostorvirtual
machine.
Youcanalsoeditcustomattributesandaddannotationsfor
avirtualmachineorhost
fromtheSummarytabfortheobject.Annotationscanbeusedtoprovideadditional
descriptivetextorcommentsforanobject.