In February 2025, VMware announced significant enhancements in tagging performance with the release of vCenter 8.0 Update 3 (U3). These improvements directly impact the efficiency of managing and organizing virtual assets.
Key Performance Enhancements in vCenter 8.0 U3:
- attach() API: Achieves a 40% performance boost, accelerating the process of associating tags with individual objects.
- attachTagToMultipleObjects() API: Exhibits a remarkable 200% speed increase, streamlining the assignment of a single tag to multiple objects simultaneously.
- attachMultipleTagsToObject() API: Delivers a 31%–36% improvement, facilitating the efficient attachment of multiple tags to a single object.
These enhancements are detailed in the technical paper titled “VMware vCenter 8.0 U3 Tagging Performance Best Practices,” which provides in-depth insights into the performance improvements of various tagging APIs available in vCenter through the VMware vSphere Automation SDK, including code examples and updated performance data.
Notably, vCenter 8.0 U3 maintains the same limits as 7.0 U3 regarding the number of tags, categories, and tag associations, while offering improved performance.
For a comprehensive understanding of these tagging improvements, refer to the full technical paper: VMware vCenter 8.0 U3 Tagging Performance Best Practices.
By upgrading to vCenter 8.0 U3, organizations can leverage these performance enhancements to achieve more efficient and scalable management of their virtual environments.
