Deployments from Aria Automation fail to tag objects in the vSphere Client when reviewing the virtual machine object

Products

• VCF Operations/Automation (formerly VMware Aria Suite)

Issue/Introduction

• You are following the guidance in Tutorial: Using tags in Automation Assembler to manage vSphere resources
• When reviewing the virtual machine in the vSphere Client you cannot find the tags on the virtual machine which is from the blueprint you requested.
• Capability and Constraint tagging otherwise has no issues.
• The tag in question may show up in Aria Automation with a type of both Discovered and User Defined.

Environment

VMware Aria Automation 8.x

VMware vSphere 7.x/8.x

Cause

The service account used by the VMware Aria Automation vSphere cloud account was missing the required permissions to complete vSphere tagging operations.

The account may only have a singular provided authorization similar to the below:

• Assign or Unassign vSphere tag on object

Resolution

Update the permissions for the VMware Aria Automation service account within vCenter to include all required tagging permissions:

• Assign or Unassign vSphere tag
• Assign or Unassign vSphere tag on object
• Create vSphere tag
• Delete vSphere tag
• Edit vSphere tag
• Create vSphere tag category
• Delete vSphere tag category
• Edit vSphere tag category

After adjusting these permissions, redeploy a virtual machine using VMware Aria Automation and verify that objects are correctly tagged within the vSphere client.

Additional Information

Permissions requirements are documented in the official VMware Techdocs:

• Credentials for Cloud Accounts (VMware Techdocs)