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Sample: Add metadata to a VM and query for a VM using that metadata

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#18 opened on May 28, 2014

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Description

Demonstrate how to find a VM based on metadata placed inside the VM. This is useful for integration work with other management tools and it is also a useful tool for marking and working with collections of virtual machines.

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Use pyVmomi to set VM metadata via annotations or guest environment variables, then query using vSphere API filters.
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python
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infrastructure
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