VMware vRA CLI Reference Guide

This comprehensive reference guide covers all available commands, options, and usage patterns for the VMware vRA CLI tool.

Global Options

All commands support these global options:

Option	Description	Default
`--verbose`, `-v`	Enable verbose output with HTTP request/response details	`False`
`--format`	Output format: `table`, `json`, `yaml`	`table`
`--version`	Show CLI version and exit	-
`--help`	Show help message and exit	-

Global Option Examples

# Enable verbose logging for troubleshooting
vmware-vra --verbose catalog list

# Get JSON output instead of table
vmware-vra --format json deployment list

# Show version information
vmware-vra --version

Authentication Commands (`auth`)

Manage authentication tokens and credentials.

`auth login`

Authenticate to vRA using username and password.

Syntax:

vmware-vra auth login [OPTIONS]

Options: | Option | Type | Description | Required | |--------|------|-------------|----------| | --username | TEXT | Username for vRA access | Yes | | --password | TEXT | Password for vRA access | Yes | | --url | TEXT | vRA server URL | No | | --tenant | TEXT | vRA tenant | No | | --domain | TEXT | Domain for multiple identity sources | No |

Prompted if not provided
*Uses configured default if available

Examples:

# Interactive login (prompts for credentials)
vmware-vra auth login

# Login with specific parameters
vmware-vra auth login \
    --username john.doe@company.com \
    --url https://vra.company.com \
    --tenant company.local

# Login with specific domain for multiple identity sources
vmware-vra auth login \
    --username administrator \
    --domain vsphere.local \
    --url https://vra.company.com

Sample Output:

✅ Authentication successful!
🔑 Tokens saved securely
💾 Configuration saved: https://vra.company.com
🏢 Tenant: company.local
🌐 Domain: vsphere.local

`auth logout`

Clear stored authentication tokens.

Syntax:

vmware-vra auth logout

Example:

vmware-vra auth logout

Sample Output:

✅ Logged out successfully

`auth status`

Check current authentication status.

Syntax:

vmware-vra auth status

Example:

vmware-vra auth status

Sample Outputs:

# Fully authenticated
✅ Authenticated (Access token available)
🔄 Refresh token available for automatic renewal

# Refresh token only
⚠️ Only refresh token available - will obtain new access token on next use

# Not authenticated
❌ Not authenticated

`auth refresh`

Manually refresh the access token.

Syntax:

vmware-vra auth refresh

Example:

vmware-vra auth refresh

Sample Output:

✅ Access token refreshed successfully

Configuration Commands (`config`)

Manage CLI configuration settings.

`config show`

Display current configuration values.

Syntax:

vmware-vra config show

Example:

vmware-vra config show

Sample Output (Table Format):

                   VMware vRA CLI Configuration
┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓
┃ Setting       ┃ Value                                   ┃ Source                          ┃
┡━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┩
│ Api Url       │ https://vra.company.com                 │ Config file                     │
│ Tenant        │ company.local                           │ Config file                     │
│ Domain        │ vsphere.local                           │ Config file                     │
│ Verify Ssl    │ True                                    │ Default                         │
│ Timeout       │ 30                                      │ Default                         │
└───────────────┴─────────────────────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────────┘

Config file: /Users/username/.config/vmware-vra-cli/config.json

`config set`

Set a configuration value.

Syntax:

vmware-vra config set KEY VALUE

Available Keys: - api_url: vRA server URL - tenant: vRA tenant identifier - domain: Authentication domain - verify_ssl: SSL verification (true/false) - timeout: Request timeout in seconds

Examples:

# Set vRA server URL
vmware-vra config set api_url https://vra.company.com

# Set tenant
vmware-vra config set tenant company.local

# Disable SSL verification (not recommended for production)
vmware-vra config set verify_ssl false

# Set timeout
vmware-vra config set timeout 60

Sample Output:

✅ Configuration updated: api_url = https://vra.company.com
Saved to: /Users/username/.config/vmware-vra-cli/config.json

`config reset`

Reset configuration to defaults.

Syntax:

vmware-vra config reset [OPTIONS]

Options: | Option | Description | |--------|-------------| | --confirm | Skip confirmation prompt |

Examples:

# Reset with confirmation prompt
vmware-vra config reset

# Reset without confirmation
vmware-vra config reset --confirm

`config edit`

Edit configuration file in default editor.

Syntax:

vmware-vra config edit

Example:

vmware-vra config edit

Service Catalog Commands (`catalog`)

Manage catalog items and requests.

`catalog list`

List available catalog items.

Syntax:

vmware-vra catalog list [OPTIONS]

Options: | Option | Type | Default | Description | |--------|------|---------|-------------| | --project | TEXT | None | Filter by project ID | | --page-size | INT | 100 | Items per page (max: 2000) | | --first-page-only | FLAG | False | Fetch only first page |

Examples:

# List all catalog items
vmware-vra catalog list

# List items for specific project
vmware-vra catalog list --project dev-project-123

# List first page only (faster for large catalogs)
vmware-vra catalog list --first-page-only

# Get JSON output
vmware-vra --format json catalog list

Sample Output (Table):

                     Service Catalog Items (156 items)
┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━┓
┃ ID                                     ┃ Name                     ┃ Type                ┃ Status    ┃ Version   ┃
┡━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━┩
│ blueprint-ubuntu-server-01             │ Ubuntu Server Template  │ blueprint           │ PUBLISHED │ 1.2       │
│ blueprint-windows-server-2019          │ Windows Server 2019     │ blueprint           │ PUBLISHED │ 2.1       │
│ workflow-create-user-account           │ Create User Account     │ workflow            │ PUBLISHED │ 1.0       │
│ blueprint-docker-container             │ Docker Container        │ blueprint           │ PUBLISHED │ 3.0       │
└────────────────────────────────────────┴──────────────────────────┴─────────────────────┴───────────┴───────────┘

`catalog show`

Show details of a specific catalog item.

Syntax:

vmware-vra catalog show ITEM_ID

Examples:

# Show catalog item details
vmware-vra catalog show blueprint-ubuntu-server-01

# Get JSON output
vmware-vra --format json catalog show blueprint-ubuntu-server-01

Sample Output (Table):

                        Catalog Item: Ubuntu Server Template
┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓
┃ Property    ┃ Value                                                                                   ┃
┡━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┩
│ ID          │ blueprint-ubuntu-server-01                                                              │
│ Name        │ Ubuntu Server Template                                                                  │
│ Type        │ blueprint                                                                               │
│ Status      │ PUBLISHED                                                                               │
│ Version     │ 1.2                                                                                     │
│ Description │ Standard Ubuntu 20.04 server template with common configurations                       │
└─────────────┴─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

`catalog schema`

Show request schema for a catalog item.

Syntax:

vmware-vra catalog schema ITEM_ID

Examples:

# Show schema for catalog item
vmware-vra catalog schema blueprint-ubuntu-server-01

# Always outputs JSON regardless of --format setting
vmware-vra catalog schema blueprint-ubuntu-server-01

Sample Output:

href="#__codelineno-31-1">{ "type": "object", "properties": { "hostname": { "type": "string", "title": "Hostname", "description": "Server hostname" }, "cpu": { "type": "integer", "title": "CPU Count", "default": 2, "minimum": 1, "maximum": 8 }, "memory": { "type": "string", "title": "Memory Size", "default": "4GB", "enum": ["2GB", "4GB", "8GB", "16GB"] } }, "required": ["hostname"] }

`catalog request`

Request a catalog item deployment.

Syntax:

vmware-vra catalog request ITEM_ID [OPTIONS]

Options: | Option | Type | Description | Required | |--------|------|-------------|----------| | --inputs | TEXT | Input parameters as JSON string | No | | --inputs-file | PATH | Input parameters from YAML/JSON file | No | | --project | TEXT | Project ID for the request | Yes | | --reason | TEXT | Reason for the request | No | | --name | TEXT | Deployment name | No |

Examples:

# Request with inline JSON inputs
vmware-vra catalog request blueprint-ubuntu-server-01 \
    --inputs '{"hostname": "web-server-01", "cpu": 4, "memory": "8GB"}' \
    --project dev-project-123 \
    --reason "Development web server"

# Request with inputs from file
vmware-vra catalog request blueprint-ubuntu-server-01 \
    --inputs-file server-config.yaml \
    --project dev-project-123 \
    --name "web-server-01"

# Simple request with minimal parameters
vmware-vra catalog request blueprint-ubuntu-server-01 \
    --project dev-project-123

Sample inputs-file (server-config.yaml):

hostname: web-server-01
cpu: 4
memory: "8GB"
disk_size: "100GB"
network: "corporate-dmz"
install_packages:
  - nginx
  - docker
  - git

Sample Output:

✅ Request submitted successfully!
Deployment ID: deployment-12345-abcdef
Request ID: request-67890-ghijkl

Deployment Commands (`deployment`)

Manage and export deployments.

`deployment list`

List deployments.

Syntax:

vmware-vra deployment list [OPTIONS]

Options: | Option | Type | Default | Description | |--------|------|---------|-------------| | --project | TEXT | None | Filter by project ID | | --status | TEXT | None | Filter by status | | --page-size | INT | 100 | Items per page (max: 2000) | | --first-page-only | FLAG | False | Fetch only first page |

Examples:

# List all deployments
vmware-vra deployment list

# List deployments for specific project
vmware-vra deployment list --project dev-project-123

# List only successful deployments
vmware-vra deployment list --status CREATE_SUCCESSFUL

# First page only for large environments
vmware-vra deployment list --first-page-only

Sample Output:

                               Deployments (89 items)
┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓
┃ ID                                     ┃ Name                   ┃ Status              ┃ Project           ┃ Created                       ┃
┡━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┩
│ deployment-12345-abcdef                │ web-server-01          │ CREATE_SUCCESSFUL   │ dev-project-123   │ 2024-01-15T09:30:00.000Z      │
│ deployment-67890-ghijkl                │ database-server-01     │ CREATE_SUCCESSFUL   │ dev-project-123   │ 2024-01-15T10:15:00.000Z      │
│ deployment-13579-mnopqr                │ load-balancer-01       │ CREATE_INPROGRESS   │ prod-project-456  │ 2024-01-15T11:00:00.000Z      │
└────────────────────────────────────────┴────────────────────────┴─────────────────────┴───────────────────┴───────────────────────────────┘

`deployment show`

Show deployment details.

Syntax:

vmware-vra deployment show DEPLOYMENT_ID

Examples:

# Show deployment details
vmware-vra deployment show deployment-12345-abcdef

# Get YAML output
vmware-vra --format yaml deployment show deployment-12345-abcdef

Sample Output (Table):

                            Deployment: web-server-01
┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓
┃ Property           ┃ Value                                                                   ┃
┡━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┩
│ id                 │ deployment-12345-abcdef                                                 │
│ name               │ web-server-01                                                           │
│ status             │ CREATE_SUCCESSFUL                                                       │
│ projectId          │ dev-project-123                                                         │
│ catalogItemId      │ blueprint-ubuntu-server-01                                              │
│ createdAt          │ 2024-01-15T09:30:00.000Z                                                │
│ completedAt        │ 2024-01-15T09:45:00.000Z                                                │
│ inputs             │ {"hostname": "web-server-01", "cpu": 4, "memory": "8GB"}               │
└────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

`deployment delete`

Delete a deployment.

Syntax:

vmware-vra deployment delete DEPLOYMENT_ID [OPTIONS]

Options: | Option | Description | |--------|-------------| | --confirm | Skip confirmation prompt |

Examples:

# Delete with confirmation prompt
vmware-vra deployment delete deployment-12345-abcdef

# Delete without confirmation
vmware-vra deployment delete deployment-12345-abcdef --confirm

Sample Output:

✅ Deployment deployment-12345-abcdef deletion initiated

`deployment resources`

Show deployment resources.

Syntax:

vmware-vra deployment resources DEPLOYMENT_ID

Examples:

# Show deployment resources
vmware-vra deployment resources deployment-12345-abcdef

# Get JSON output
vmware-vra --format json deployment resources deployment-12345-abcdef

Sample Output:

                      Resources for Deployment deployment-12345-abcdef
┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓
┃ ID                                     ┃ Name                   ┃ Type                     ┃ Status            ┃
┡━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┩
│ vm-12345-abcdef                        │ web-server-01          │ Cloud.vSphere.Machine    │ SUCCESS           │
│ disk-67890-ghijkl                      │ web-server-01-disk1    │ Cloud.vSphere.Disk       │ SUCCESS           │
│ nic-13579-mnopqr                       │ web-server-01-nic0     │ Cloud.vSphere.Network    │ SUCCESS           │
└────────────────────────────────────────┴────────────────────────┴──────────────────────────┴───────────────────┘

`deployment export-all`

Export all deployments grouped by catalog item.

Syntax:

vmware-vra deployment export-all [OPTIONS]

Options: | Option | Type | Default | Description | |--------|------|---------|-------------| | --project | TEXT | None | Filter deployments by project ID | | --output-dir | TEXT | ./exports | Directory to save export files | | --include-resources | FLAG | False | Include resource details (slower) | | --no-unsynced | FLAG | False | Exclude unsynced deployments |

For comprehensive details and examples, see the Deployment Export Guide.

Quick Examples:

# Basic export
vmware-vra deployment export-all

# Export with resource details
vmware-vra deployment export-all --include-resources

# Export specific project
vmware-vra deployment export-all --project dev-project-123

# Export to custom directory
vmware-vra deployment export-all --output-dir /backup/vra-exports

Tag Management Commands (`tag`)

Manage tags and resource tagging.

`tag list`

List available tags.

Syntax:

vmware-vra tag list [OPTIONS]

Options: | Option | Type | Default | Description | |--------|------|---------|-------------| | --search | TEXT | None | Search term to filter tags | | --page-size | INT | 100 | Items per page (max: 2000) | | --first-page-only | FLAG | False | Fetch only first page |

Examples:

# List all tags
vmware-vra tag list

# Search for specific tags
vmware-vra tag list --search environment

# First page only
vmware-vra tag list --first-page-only

`tag show`

Show details of a specific tag.

Syntax:

vmware-vra tag show TAG_ID

Example:

vmware-vra tag show tag-12345-abcdef

`tag create`

Create a new tag.

Syntax:

vmware-vra tag create KEY [OPTIONS]

Options: | Option | Type | Description | |--------|------|-------------| | --value | TEXT | Tag value (optional) | | --description | TEXT | Tag description (optional) |

Examples:

# Create simple tag
vmware-vra tag create environment --value production

# Create tag with description
vmware-vra tag create cost-center \
    --value "IT-Infrastructure" \
    --description "Cost center for IT infrastructure resources"

`tag update`

Update an existing tag.

Syntax:

vmware-vra tag update TAG_ID [OPTIONS]

Options: | Option | Type | Description | |--------|------|-------------| | --key | TEXT | New tag key | | --value | TEXT | New tag value | | --description | TEXT | New tag description |

Example:

vmware-vra tag update tag-12345-abcdef \
    --value "development" \
    --description "Development environment resources"

`tag delete`

Delete a tag.

Syntax:

vmware-vra tag delete TAG_ID [OPTIONS]

Options: | Option | Description | |--------|-------------| | --confirm | Skip confirmation prompt |

Example:

vmware-vra tag delete tag-12345-abcdef --confirm

`tag assign`

Assign a tag to a resource.

Syntax:

vmware-vra tag assign RESOURCE_ID TAG_ID [OPTIONS]

Options: | Option | Type | Default | Description | |--------|------|---------|-------------| | --resource-type | CHOICE | deployment | Resource type: deployment or catalog-item |

Examples:

# Assign tag to deployment
vmware-vra tag assign deployment-12345-abcdef tag-67890-ghijkl

# Assign tag to catalog item
vmware-vra tag assign blueprint-ubuntu-server-01 tag-environment-prod \
    --resource-type catalog-item

`tag remove`

Remove a tag from a resource.

Syntax:

vmware-vra tag remove RESOURCE_ID TAG_ID [OPTIONS]

Options: | Option | Type | Default | Description | |--------|------|---------|-------------| | --resource-type | CHOICE | deployment | Resource type: deployment or catalog-item | | --confirm | FLAG | False | Skip confirmation prompt |

Example:

vmware-vra tag remove deployment-12345-abcdef tag-67890-ghijkl --confirm

`tag resource-tags`

Show tags assigned to a resource.

Syntax:

vmware-vra tag resource-tags RESOURCE_ID [OPTIONS]

Options: | Option | Type | Default | Description | |--------|------|---------|-------------| | --resource-type | CHOICE | deployment | Resource type: deployment or catalog-item |

Example:

vmware-vra tag resource-tags deployment-12345-abcdef

Report Commands (`report`)

Generate analytics and reports.

`report activity-timeline`

Generate deployment activity timeline.

Syntax:

vmware-vra report activity-timeline [OPTIONS]

Options: | Option | Type | Default | Description | |--------|------|---------|-------------| | --project | TEXT | None | Filter by project ID | | --days-back | INT | 30 | Days back for timeline | | --group-by | CHOICE | day | Group by: day, week, month, year | | --statuses | TEXT | All | Comma-separated status list |

Examples:

# 30-day activity timeline
vmware-vra report activity-timeline

# Weekly activity for 90 days
vmware-vra report activity-timeline --days-back 90 --group-by week

# Only successful deployments
vmware-vra report activity-timeline \
    --statuses "CREATE_SUCCESSFUL,UPDATE_SUCCESSFUL"

`report catalog-usage`

Generate catalog usage report.

Syntax:

vmware-vra report catalog-usage [OPTIONS]

Options: | Option | Type | Default | Description | |--------|------|---------|-------------| | --project | TEXT | None | Filter by project ID | | --include-zero | FLAG | False | Include items with zero deployments | | --sort-by | CHOICE | deployments | Sort by: deployments, resources, name | | --detailed-resources | FLAG | False | Fetch exact resource counts |

Examples:

# Basic usage report
vmware-vra report catalog-usage

# Include all catalog items
vmware-vra report catalog-usage --include-zero --sort-by name

# Detailed resource counting
vmware-vra report catalog-usage --detailed-resources

`report unsync`

Generate unsynced deployments report.

Syntax:

vmware-vra report unsync [OPTIONS]

Options: | Option | Type | Default | Description | |--------|------|---------|-------------| | --project | TEXT | None | Filter by project ID | | --detailed-resources | FLAG | False | Fetch exact resource counts | | --show-details | FLAG | False | Show detailed analysis | | --reason-filter | TEXT | None | Filter by specific reason |

Examples:

# Basic unsync report
vmware-vra report unsync

# Detailed analysis
vmware-vra report unsync --show-details

# Filter by specific reason
vmware-vra report unsync --reason-filter catalog_item_deleted

Workflow Commands (`workflow`)

Manage and execute workflows.

`workflow list`

List available workflows.

Syntax:

vmware-vra workflow list [OPTIONS]

Options: | Option | Type | Default | Description | |--------|------|---------|-------------| | --page-size | INT | 100 | Items per page (max: 2000) | | --first-page-only | FLAG | False | Fetch only first page |

Example:

vmware-vra workflow list

`workflow run`

Execute a workflow.

Syntax:

vmware-vra workflow run WORKFLOW_ID [OPTIONS]

Options: | Option | Type | Description | |--------|------|-------------| | --inputs | TEXT | Input parameters as JSON string | | --inputs-file | PATH | Input parameters from YAML/JSON file |

Examples:

# Run workflow with inline inputs
vmware-vra workflow run create-user-workflow \
    --inputs '{"username": "john.doe", "department": "IT"}'

# Run workflow with inputs file
vmware-vra workflow run create-user-workflow \
    --inputs-file user-inputs.yaml

Output Formats

All list and show commands support three output formats:

Table Format (Default)

Human-readable tables with aligned columns and formatting.

vmware-vra catalog list

JSON Format

Machine-readable JSON for scripting and automation.

vmware-vra --format json catalog list

YAML Format

Human-readable YAML format.

vmware-vra --format yaml catalog list

Environment Variables

Override configuration using environment variables:

Variable	Description	Example
`VRA_URL`	vRA server URL	`https://vra.company.com`
`VRA_TENANT`	vRA tenant	`company.local`
`VRA_DOMAIN`	Authentication domain	`vsphere.local`
`VRA_VERIFY_SSL`	SSL verification	`true` or `false`
`VRA_TIMEOUT`	Request timeout	`60`

Example:

export VRA_URL="https://vra-dev.company.com"
export VRA_TENANT="dev.company.local"
vmware-vra catalog list

Common Usage Patterns

Automation Scripts

#!/bin/bash
set -e

# Authenticate
vmware-vra auth login \
    --username "$VRA_USERNAME" \
    --password "$VRA_PASSWORD" \
    --url "$VRA_URL"

# Deploy infrastructure
DEPLOYMENT_ID=$(vmware-vra catalog request blueprint-web-app \
    --project "$PROJECT_ID" \
    --inputs-file webapp-config.yaml \
    --format json | jq -r '.deploymentId')

echo "Deployment created: $DEPLOYMENT_ID"

# Wait for deployment completion (custom logic)
while true; do
    STATUS=$(vmware-vra deployment show "$DEPLOYMENT_ID" --format json | jq -r '.status')
    if [[ "$STATUS" == "CREATE_SUCCESSFUL" ]]; then
        echo "Deployment completed successfully"
        break
    elif [[ "$STATUS" == "CREATE_FAILED" ]]; then
        echo "Deployment failed"
        exit 1
    fi
    sleep 30
done

Batch Operations

#!/bin/bash
# Tag multiple deployments

DEPLOYMENTS=$(vmware-vra deployment list --format json | jq -r '.[].id')
TAG_ID="tag-environment-prod"

for deployment in $DEPLOYMENTS; do
    echo "Tagging deployment: $deployment"
    vmware-vra tag assign "$deployment" "$TAG_ID" --confirm
done

Data Export Pipeline

#!/bin/bash
# Complete data export and analysis

EXPORT_DIR="/backup/vra/$(date +%Y-%m-%d)"
mkdir -p "$EXPORT_DIR"

# Export deployments
vmware-vra deployment export-all \
    --output-dir "$EXPORT_DIR" \
    --include-resources

# Generate reports
vmware-vra report catalog-usage --format json > "$EXPORT_DIR/catalog-usage.json"
vmware-vra report unsync --format json > "$EXPORT_DIR/unsync-report.json"
vmware-vra report activity-timeline --days-back 90 --format json > "$EXPORT_DIR/activity-timeline.json"

# Create summary
echo "Export completed: $EXPORT_DIR"
echo "Files created:"
ls -la "$EXPORT_DIR"

This comprehensive CLI reference provides complete coverage of all available commands, options, and usage patterns for the VMware vRA CLI tool.

VMware vRA CLI Reference Guide

Global Options

Global Option Examples

Authentication Commands (auth)

auth login

auth logout

auth status

auth refresh

Configuration Commands (config)

config show

config set

config reset

config edit

Service Catalog Commands (catalog)

catalog list

catalog show

catalog schema

catalog request

Deployment Commands (deployment)

deployment list

deployment show

deployment delete

deployment resources

deployment export-all

Tag Management Commands (tag)

tag list

tag show

tag create

tag update

tag delete

tag assign

tag remove

tag resource-tags

Report Commands (report)

report activity-timeline

report catalog-usage

report unsync

Workflow Commands (workflow)

workflow list

workflow run

Output Formats

Table Format (Default)

JSON Format

YAML Format

Environment Variables

Common Usage Patterns

Automation Scripts

Batch Operations

Data Export Pipeline

Authentication Commands (`auth`)

`auth login`

`auth logout`

`auth status`

`auth refresh`

Configuration Commands (`config`)

`config show`

`config set`

`config reset`

`config edit`

Service Catalog Commands (`catalog`)

`catalog list`

`catalog show`

`catalog schema`

`catalog request`

Deployment Commands (`deployment`)

`deployment list`

`deployment show`

`deployment delete`

`deployment resources`

`deployment export-all`

Tag Management Commands (`tag`)

`tag list`

`tag show`

`tag create`

`tag update`

`tag delete`

`tag assign`

`tag remove`

`tag resource-tags`

Report Commands (`report`)

`report activity-timeline`

`report catalog-usage`

`report unsync`

Workflow Commands (`workflow`)

`workflow list`

`workflow run`