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also which VMs are production, test, or development. In the section “Understanding Inventory
Views and Objects” earlier in this chapter, we explained how you could use folders to organize
objects for management and security. The problem with folders is that a VM can reside in only
one folder; taking this example, you cannot put a VM in both the Engineering folder and the
Production folder. With tags, this problem is solved. While you can specify that only a single tag
can be applied to a certain object at any one time, you can also specify multiple tags against a
single object. We'll now show you how to create some tags and how they could be used.
Each tag must belong to a category (and only a single category), and because of this require-
ment you must create a category before or at the same time you create any tags. Here are the steps:
1.
If the vSphere Web Client isn't already running, launch it and connect to a vCenter Server
instance.
2.
From the home screen within the Navigator, select Tags.
3.
Click the New Tag icon to open the New Tag pop-up.
4.
Enter the name of the tag and a description.
5.
Change the category to New Category and the window will expand to show more i elds.
6.
Select the vCenter server, and give the category a name and a description.
7.
Decide if this category should allow a single tag or multiple tags per object, and then
select what object type(s) are associated with this category, as shown in Figure 3.27.
8.
Click OK to save the new tag and category.
Figure 3.27
You are able to
create both tags and
tag categories from
the New Tag
dialog box.
