6.5.1

Procedure
1 In the vSphere Web Client object navigator, browse to any object that has custom aributes.
2 Click the object's Summary tab.
3 Select Actions > Tags & Custom  > Edit Custom 
4 In the Migrate Custom Aributes dialog box, click Migrate.
The Migrate Custom Aributes to Tags wizard appears.
5 Read the instructions and click Next.
6 Select the custom aributes to migrate and click Next.
The Create Tag Categories page displays the name of each custom aribute as a new tag category.
7 (Optional) Select a category to edit its 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.
Cardinality
n
Select One tag per object to allow only one tag from this category to be
applied to an object at any one time.
Use this option for categories whose tags are mutually exclusive. For
example, a category called Priority with tags High, Medium, and Low
should allow one tag per object, because an object should have only
one priority.
n
Select Many tags per object to allow multiple tags from the category to
be applied to an object at any one time.
Use this option for categories whose tags are not mutually exclusive.
After you have set the cardinality of a category, you can change the
cardinality from One tag per object to Many tags per object, but not from
Many tags per object to One tag per object.
Associable Object Types
Select whether tags in this category can be assigned to all objects or only to
a specic type of managed object, such as virtual machines or datastores.
After you have set the associable object types for a category, you can
change a category that is associable with a single object type to be
associable with all object types. You cannot restrict a category that is
associable to all object types to being associable to a single object type.
8 (Optional) Select a tag to edit its aributes.
Option Description
Name
The tag name must be unique across all linked vCenter Server systems.
Description
You can provide text in the description to describe the purpose or use of
the tag.
9 Click Finish.
The selected custom aributes are converted to categories and tags.
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