Appendix

vRA Property Definition Prefix

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vRA Lifecycle States and Default Priorities

vRA Lifecycle StatePriority
Machine Provisioned PRE

vRA provisioned machine, e.g. cloned virtual machine template

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Provisioning

  • When a tagged VM is provisioned, the VM’s relationship to the Tag is created
  • If the Tag Category does not exist, it will be created in vCenter
  • If the Tag does not exist, it will be created in vCenter
If the property name or value resolves to an empty string it will be skipped

Deprovisioning

  • When a tagged VM is destroyed, the VM’s relationship to the Tag is removed
  • Tags are not removed from vCenter upon VM removal
  • Categories are not removed from vCenter upon VM removal