Creating tags and assigning tags to the list of VMs using PowerCLI

Products

• VMware vSphere ESXi

Issue/Introduction

This article helps to create new tag and assign tags to the list of VMs using PowerCLI.

Symptoms:

Resolution

This script help you to create New Tags along with the new Tag Category if not existing.

Script can assign the tags to the all the VMs present in vSphere Environment.

$VMNames = Get-VM

$VMNames.Name | Out-File c:\scripts\vmnames.txt

$FileContent = Get-Content c:\scripts\vmnames.txt

$uTagName = Read-Host "Enter VM Tag Name"

Try

{

#Assign Tag to VM

$GetVMTag = Get-Tag -Name $uTagName -ErrorAction Stop

Write-Host "TagName found"

foreach($VMinFile in $FileContent)

{

Get-VM $VMinFile | New-TagAssignment -Tag $GetVMTag

}

Write-Host "Tag Assignment completed"

}

Catch

{

Write-Host "Tag name you entered not found, let's create one"

$YesOrNo = Read-Host "Please confirm, if you would like to proceed further (Y/N)"

if(($YesOrNo -eq 'y') -or ($YesOrNo -eq 'Y'))

{

$uTagCatName = Read-Host "Enter Tag Categaory under which you would like to create new Tag"

Try

{

$GetVMTagCat = Get-TagCategory -Name $uTagCatName -ErrorAction Stop

Write-Host "TagCategory found"

$uNewTagName = Read-Host "Enter New Tag name"

$uNewTagDes = Read-Host "Enter Tag Description"

New-Tag -Name $uNewTagName -Category $GetVMTagCat -Description $uNewTagDes

}

Catch

{

Write-Host "TagCategory you entered not found, let's create one"

$uNewTagCatName = Read-Host "Enter New TagCategory name"

$uNewTagCatDes = Read-Host "Enter TagCategory Description"

New-TagCategory -Name $uNewTagCatName -Description $uNewTagCatDes

Write-Host "Now, let's create a new Tag under TagCategory:" $uNewTagCatName

$uNewTagName = Read-Host "Enter New Tag name"

$uNewTagDes = Read-Host "Enter Tag Description"

New-Tag -Name $uNewTagName -Category $uNewTagCatName -Description $uNewTagDes

}

#Assign Tag to VM

$GetVMTag = Get-Tag -Name $uNewTagName -ErrorAction Stop

foreach($VMinFile in $FileContent)

{

Get-VM $VMinFile | New-TagAssignment -Tag $GetVMTag

}

}

Write-Host "Tag Assignment completed"

}