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Expand Up @@ -23,6 +23,18 @@ Host tags
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Host tags are responsible for directing VMs to compatible hosts. They are validated with the host tags informed in the compute offerings or in the system offerings.

There are two types of host tags:

- (Explicit) host tags: the host tags are managed by CloudStack. Users can set, update, and delete host tags via CloudStack API or GUI.
- Implicit host tags: the host tags are not managed by CloudStack API.

.. note::
Currently the implicit host tags are only configurable on KVM hosts.
To set it, please add the following line to /etc/cloudstack/agent/agent.properties
and restart cloudstack-agent.

host.tags=<implicit host tags separated by comma>

To explain the behavior of host tags, some examples will be demonstrated with two hosts (Host1 and Host2):

#. Tag setup:
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