Abiquo multicloud tags in VCD

Abiquo 6.0 introduces provider support for multicloud tags in VMware Cloud Director (VCD) (formerly VMware vCloud Director).

As usual, to manage tags, edit a resource. For VMs, select Tags from the VM options menu.

Abiquo users can create tags to materialize in VCD on the following resources:

Virtual datacenter, which is a VCD virtualApp
VM, which is a VCD virtualMachine
VM template (in own organisation only, not shared/public templates in other organizations)

In a VCD tag Key you cannot enter the characters: "./" , "/." or ";", so Abiquo checks for these characters. Abiquo can create and update tags in string format. And Abiquo can onboard VCD metadata as tags in all formats including string, number, boolean, and date.

Abiquo uses VCD metadata to store the tags in the provider.

Abiquo uses the default VCD attributes to create fully accessible tags. Abiquo does not manage the hidden and read only attributes of VCD metadata.
In VCD, the UI does not enable users to filter resources by metadata, but users can do this in the Abiquo UI, or with the VCD API.

Abiquo users can apply tag policies to multicloud tags across all providers, and they can also use tags on VMs and scaling groups to dynaically select groups of resources to apply automation with action plans.

As usual, to display tags, you can select the VM and go to Tags on the VM details panel. If Abiquo has created the tags in the provider, then the value of the Materialized attribute will be Yes.

To improve performance, Abiquo creates and updates multiple tags as a group.
So for troubleshooting purposes, it could be helpful to know that in the unlikely event that Abiquo was unable to create or update any of the tags, the task to create or update the group of tags would fail.