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4 Edit the category options.
Option Description
Category Name The category name must be unique to the currently selected vCenter Server
system.
Description You can provide text in the description to describe the purpose or use of the
category.
Tags Per Object
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If you select One Tag, you can apply only one tag from this category to an
object.
Use this option for categories whose tags are mutually exclusive. For
example, if you have a category called Priority with tags High, Medium, and
Low, then each object should have only one tag because an object can have
only one priority.
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If you select Many tags, you can apply more than one tag from the category
to an object.
Use this option for categories whose tags are not mutually exclusive.
After you have set Tags Per Object, you can change from One Tag to Many
Tags, but not from Many Tags to One Tag.
Associable Object Types Select whether tags in this category can be assigned to all objects or only to a
specific type of object, such as a virtual machine or a datastore.
Changes to the associable object type are limited.
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If you initially selected a single object type, you can later change the category
to work for all object types.
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If you initially selected All Objects, you cannot restrict the category later.
5 Click OK or Yes to confirm.
Create, Edit, or Delete a Tag
You use tags to add metadata to inventory objects. You can record information about your inventory
objects in tags, and you can use the tags in searches.
Prerequisites
The required privilege depends on the task that you want to perform.
Task Privilege
Create a tag vSphere Tagging.Create vSphere Tag on the root vCenter
Server
Edit a tag vSphere Tagging.Edit vSphere Tag on the root vCenter Server
Delete a tag vSphere Tagging.Delete vSphere Tag on the root vCenter
Server
Procedure
1 In the vSphere Client, click Menu > Tags & Custom Attributes.
2 Click Tags.
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