Creating and assigning tier tags to virtual machine

You must perform this step only if you have
Palo Alto Networks Next Generation Firewall
configured.
Before you create and assign tier tags, you may want to understand the significance of tier tags. About tier tags
Operations Director
is unable to derive tier tags when the regular expressions configured in the
od.properties
file do not match the virtual machine names. In such a scenario, you may have to manually create and assign tier tags to the virtual machines.
Tier tags can be applied to a stand-alone virtual machine and virtual machines that are part of a vApp. Tier tags cannot be applied to a vApp.
  1. To create and assign tags to virtual machines
  2. Log in to the vSphere Web client.
  3. On the home page, select
    vCenter
    .
  4. Under
    Inventory Lists
    , select
    Virtual Machines
    .
    The list of virtual machines is displayed.
  5. Select the virtual machine that you want to assign tags to in the left panel.
  6. In the right panel, go to
    Manage > Tags
    portlet.
  7. In the top-left, click the
    New Tag
    icon and create the tags WEB, APP, and DB and assign the category as
    Tier
    .
    The new tags that you create and save are listed in the
    Assign Tag
    portlet.
  8. Now click the
    Assign Tags
    icon in the top left.
  9. Select the desired tag and click
    Assign
    to assign it to the virtual machine.