{"id":220,"date":"2025-08-21T21:32:24","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T19:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vcdlab.com\/?p=220"},"modified":"2025-08-21T21:40:32","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T19:40:32","slug":"using-custom-attributes-as-filter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vcdlab.com\/?p=220","title":{"rendered":"Using Custom Attributes as Filter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Today during my work with a customer about upgrading VxRail clusters, DRS was stopped by one of the customer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No Chance Resources Pools and DRS rules have been deleted because of that. No worries it was a non production cluster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But when the customer started to recreate the Resources Pools, the virtual machines were added manually because “Tags or Categories” are not a filter in the VMs tab. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So i found a workaround even if it’s the best solution in its problematic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Custom Attribute can be added in the filter of the column so i created one named Task \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Then i added a value in the custom attribute for each virtual machine. In my example, each nsx nodes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In conclusion we can filter virtual machines with the help of custom attributes<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The easiest step, select the virtual machines and grab them to the resource pool.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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