Reading/modifying VM tags using the SDK?

[mwaack]

I'm trying to read/edit tags associated with a virtual machine by using the vsphere sdk (with pyvmomi cause I prefer python, our VSphere has version 5.1). The vm object has a field "tag" which should contain the tag - but in fact it contains the custom attribute, not the tag.

A simple code excerpt:

from pyVim.connect import SmartConnect, Disconnect

def tags(vm):
  if hasattr(vm, 'childEntity'):
      vmList = vm.childEntity
      for c in vmList:
         tags(c)
  else:
      print vm.name
      for k in vm.tag:
        print k

def main():
      si = SmartConnect(host="<host>", user="<user>", pwd="<password>", port=<port>)
      content = si.RetrieveContent()
      datacenter = content.rootFolder.childEntity[0]
      vmFolder = datacenter.vmFolder
      vmList = vmFolder.childEntity
      for vm in vmList:
         tags(vm)

if __name__ == "__main__":
  main()

This code prints the custom attributes of the VMs (which is a bit surprising because of the naming of fields like vm.tag), but I'm looking for the tags and categories. Where can I find this information?

Mathias

[gm0meyl0ve]

Did you ever find a resolution for this?

I'm looking for the same.

Thanks

[Vikas Shitole]

is this not working :vSphere 5.5 Documentation Center

vSphere 5.5 Documentation Center

As per API reference, tag property is experimental.

[Netwrix]

Well, it should be possible with PowerCLI if you upgrade to 5.5, there are cmdlets Set-Tag, Get-Tag

And here is nice article about using them: Using vSphere tags powercli

[CiscoMiner]

Any update on this?

The SDK / pyvmomi are now at version 6.0.  The Release Notes for SDK 6.0 mention new APIs for Tag management.  I can't find any information about them though.

The use case I'm trying to address is for VMs to be classified via custom Attributes and/or Tags.  I'm using a PropertyCollector / WaitForUpdatesEx(), and for common property types (e.g. 'summary.config.name') this works fine.  Need to be able to do the same sort of thing with custom attributes and/or Tags, but so far have been unable to find any means of doing this.

[kebr]

Ya this is pretty frustrating, I'm using yavijava 6 and have the same issue.

[harishdinne]

Did anyone found a soultion yet?

i am having the same issue.

[VJ VRS]

Is there any solutions found to fetch the tags associated with VMs in a vSphere environment using the vSphere SDK 8.0 U3 ?