vSphere Tags on Clusters in Aria Operations
- Brock Peterson
- May 21, 2025
- 1 min read
Updated: Aug 17, 2025
vSphere VMs have this concept of "Notes" in vCenter, which are pulled into Aria Operations quite nicely. They look like this.
This works great for VMs, but what about Clusters? Unfortunately, there is no concept of Notes in vCenter for Clusters, so I tried with vSphere Tags and got close. It's not perfect, but close.
I wanted to assign some sort of purpose/function to a Cluster in vCenter, so we could view it in Operations, here's what I did.
Log into vCenter, go to the hamburger top left and select Tags & Custom Attributes.
From there go to Tags - CATEGORIES - NEW and create a Tag Category.
I've called mine Notes and associated it with Clusters. Next go to the Tags - TAGS - NEW to create your tag name.
Now over in Operations, select a Cluster, go to the Tags tile and click ASSIGN.
This will assign your new Tag to the Cluster you selected, which will be reflected back on the Tags tile of the Summary page for that Cluster.
Now over in Operations, once another collection has been taken, that tag will show on that Cluster.
Which we can use in Dashboards/Views/Reports and more!
When trying to create a view which show tags, all tags are in one field. I would like to create a properties view that shows each one separately. So I click on a VM and in the properties list/view it will have each category listed with its relevant tag name, Is that possible.