Unable to assign a tag in vSphere

After long time I’m here again taking away dust from my blog.

Today I want to share an issue that I found trying to assign a tag to a datastore, in order for VMware Cloud Director to use it inside the same storage policy.

This is what I found when I was trying to assign the tag:

And the relative pop-up – blank:

Having a look at the “Tags and Custom Attributes” section, I had all my tags available to be assigned, but I didn’t have them in the previous pop-up window.

Wandering all the links and tabs I found among categories that the field in the category related to the tag I was trying to assign “Tags per object” was checked as: “One tag”. This means that I can assign only 1 tag to an object.

Changing it in “Many tags”:

made the window available and populated.

And, from the previous view, the field “Multiple Cardinality” changed in “true”:

Tagging is a very powerful tool, but it needs attention and accuracy to take full advantage of it.