Starting with vSphere 6.5, the

vSphere Automation

APIs provide programmatic access to creating and managing vSphere tags in your vSphere inventory.

For example, if you want to tag your virtual machines by guest operating system type, you can create a category called

operating system

. You can specify that it applies to virtual machines only and that only a single tag can be applied to a virtual machines at any time. This category can include the following tags:

Windows

,

Linux

, and

Mac OS

.