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If resources of the kind that you selected are present, a tag for that kind appears in the tag list on the
Environment Overview page. If you expand the tag, a tag value appears for each resource of that type.
What to do next
Associate resources with the tag values. See “Associate a Resource with a Tag Value,” on page 26.
Associate a Resource with a Tag Value
You can assign any number of resources to each tag value, and you can assign a single resource to tag values
under any number of tags.
Prerequisites
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Create a resource tag. See “Add a Resource Tag,” on page 24.
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Add a value to the resource tag. See “Add a Value to a Resource Tag,” on page 25.
Procedure
1 Select Environment > Environment Overview.
2 Drag the resource from the list in the right pane of the Environment Overview page onto the tag value
name.
You can press Ctrl+click to select multiple individual resources or Shift+click to select a range of
resources.
The resources that you selected are now associated with the tag value.
Use a Tag to Find a Resource
The quickest way to find a resource in vCenter Operations Manager is to use tags. Using tags is more
efficient than searching through the entire resource list.
Tag values that can also be tags are Applications and Resource Kinds. For example, the Applications tag has
values for each application that is defined in vCenter Operations Manager, such as Online Banking. Each of
these applications is also a tag that has values equal to the tiers that it contains. The Online Banking
application might have tag values for Web Servers, DB Servers, and so on. These tiers might also contain
subvalues. You can expand the tag value list to select the value for which you want to see resources.
Procedure
1 Select Environment > Environment Overview.
2 In the tag list on the left side of the page, click a tag for a resource with an assigned value.
When you click a tag, the list of values expands under the tag. The number of resources that is
associated with each value appears next to the tag value.
A plus sign next to a tag value indicates that the value is also a tag and that it contains other tag values.
You can click the plus sign to see the subvalues.
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