Creating tags in the VMware inventory

IBM Spectrum Protect™ tags must be created in the VMware inventory before you can use tagging functions. The tags are created when you use the IBM Spectrum Protect extension or when you run a command on the data mover command line.

About this task

After the data protection tags and categories are created in the VMware inventory, you can use tools such as vSphere PowerCLI Version 5.5 R2 or later to apply these tags to the inventory objects to change their backup policy.

Procedure

Use one of the following methods to create data protection tags and categories in the VMware inventory:

Use the IBM Spectrum Protect extension to configure backup policies for an inventory object. Changing the backup policy of an inventory object automatically applies the appropriate data protection tags to the object.
Run the dsmc set vmtags command on the data mover node. You need to run this command only one time to create the tags. You do not need to run the command on every data mover node.
If you are upgrading from a previous version of the data mover software, run the dsmc set vmtags command again to create any new tags that are available in the new version of the client.
From the data mover node, back up a virtual machine in an inventory object with the vmtagdatamover yes option in the client options file or as part of the backup vm command. For example: backup vm testvm -vmtagdatamover=yes

Results

The data protection settings are created in the VMware inventory. For a list of tags that are created, see Supported data protection tags.