Using PowerCLI to get a tag associated with ESXI Host

Question

I have started using VMWare's Tag to assist in my reporting and filtering using powerCLI as my scripting tool. I have tags associated with both VMs and Hosts .

I can retrieve the tag associated with the VMs with script like this:

 Get-VM | Select Name,Guest,PowerState,VMHost,Tag,ResourcePool

Because tag is included as a returned attribute.

What I can't figure out is how to return the tab values from a Host or Datastore. Any ideas? I would like to add it to the following script:

Get-VMHost | Get-View | Select Name, 
 @{N="Cluster";E={Get-Cluster -VMHost (Get-VMHost $_.Name)}},
 @{N="DataCenter";E={Get-Datacenter -VMHost (Get-VMHost $_.Name)}},
 @{N="Vendor";E={$_.Hardware.SystemInfo.Vendor}},
 @{N="Model";E={$_.Hardware.SystemInfo.Model}},
 @{N="CPU";E={$_.Hardware.CpuInfo.NumCpuPackages}},
 @{N="CORES";E={$_.Hardware.CpuInfo.NumCpuCores}},
 @{N="TotalMHZ";E={[math]::round($_.Hardware.CpuInfo.Hz / 1000000, 0)}},
 @{N="UsedMem (GB)";E={[math]::round($_.Summary.QuickStats.overallMemoryUsage/1000, 2)}}, 
 @{N="TotalMem (GB)";E={[math]::round($_.Hardware.MemorySize / 1000000000, 2)}} |
Export-Csv MyOutputFile.csv

Thanks as always.

Answer 1

There's probably a more efficient way, but adding a property like this should work

@{N="tag";E={(Get-Tagassignment -Entity $_.Name).Tag.Name}}

What PowerCLI & vCenter versions are you running? I'm not recreating the described Get-VM | Select Tag Get-VM | Select Tag behavior with PowerCLI 6.5 & VC 5.5.