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Widen the scope of this script to add a tag to the vCenter object.
Linking this task to dominikzorgnotti/transform-vmware-product-builds-to-json#3

The JSON file needs to be manually downloaded and provided as an argument to the script. Wouldn't it be nice if it could be read directly from GitHub?
The file parameter could then be reserved for offline usage.

When importing the JSON data file, convert the output to a PS hash table.
It allows for easier handling of data verification

Currently, all ESXi hosts in a vCenter are targeted.
How to handle the user scenario where the user wants to pass an entity (Folder, Cluster, Datacenter) either as named parameter or pipeline input?

Instead of looping through the list of hosts it would be more efficient to loop through the unique build numbers first.
In pseudo-code:

• for each $version in $unique_build_numbers
  • try to build the $release_name_tag
    • for each $host in the $list_of_hosts with $version
      • apply $release_name_tag (if tag available, if not apply $null_tag