Add tags to entities in vCenter (same as Azure)

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Add tags to entities in vCenter (same as Azure) #776

Open alonagetzler opened 8 years ago

alonagetzler commented 8 years ago

we should consider adding tags to VMs (and other entities?) in vCenter that tie them back to CloudShell, reservation, user, domain etc., same as we have in Azure.

this came as an idea in the idea box - http://community.quali.com/content/idea/572/deployed-apps-in-vmware-lack-meta-data-to-tie-back.html

and it looks like there are tags in vCenter: https://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-60/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.vmware.vsphere.vcenterhost.doc%2FGUID-E8E854DD-AA97-4E0C-8419-CE84F93C4058.html

TomerAdmon commented 7 years ago

please don't marge to develop yep, this is content for the next release (7.3)
investigate performance impact
tags should be applied to all the entities we creates

anthony-poddubny commented 7 years ago

Tagging API was introduced only in 6.0 version, besides Pyvmomi haven't support for this API. It can be done with the help of vCloud Suite SDK. Some examples of how to use it can be found here: https://github.com/vmware/pyvmomi/issues/307