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Tags allow you to aach metadata to objects in the vSphere inventory to make these objects more sortable
and searchable.
A tag is a label that you can apply to objects in the vSphere inventory. When you create a tag, you assign that
tag to a category. Categories allow you to group related tags together. When you dene a category, you can
also specify which object types its tags can be applied to and whether more than one tag in the category can
be applied to an object. For example, if you wanted to tag your virtual machines by guest operating system
type, you might create a category called 'operating system'. You can specify that it applies to virtual
machines only and that only a single tag can be applied to a virtual machine at any time. The tags in this
category might be "Windows", "Linux", and "Mac OS".
If multiple vCenter Server instances are congured to use Enhanced Linked Mode, tags and tag categories
are replicated across all these vCenter Server instances.
This chapter includes the following topics:
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“Migrate Custom Aributes to Tags,” on page 71
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“Create a Tag Category,” on page 73
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“Delete a Tag Category,” on page 73
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“Edit a Tag Category,” on page 74
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“Create a Tag,” on page 75
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“Assign a Tag to an Object,” on page 75
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“Remove a Tag from an Object,” on page 75
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“Delete a Tag,” on page 76
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“Edit a Tag,” on page 76
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“Add Permissions for Tags and Tag Categories,” on page 76
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“Tagging Best Practices,” on page 77
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“Custom Aributes in the vSphere Web Client,” on page 78
Migrate Custom Attributes to Tags
Tags replace the custom aributes functionality found in previous versions of vSphere. If you have existing
custom aributes, you can migrate them to tags.
During the migration, the custom aribute names are converted to categories. Custom aribute values are
converted to tag names.
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