9.1 Understanding Groups

Groups allow you to better manage a view’s items when you have too many items to view on one screen. You can create multiple groups under any of the four Inventory perspective views (Virtual Machines, Host Servers, Storage, or Templates).

The following figure illustrates groups in the Inventory panel:

Figure 9-1 Groups in the Inventory Perspective of the VM Client

The presence of the Closed List Icon icon indicates that the Inventory type has groups within it. It changes to the Closed List Icon icon when you click the Closed List Icon icon to expand the groups list.

To view groups and group memberships:

  1. In the VM Client, click the Closed List Icon icon for an Inventory’s view (Virtual Machines, Host Servers, Storage, or Templates) to expand its existing groups.

  2. To view a group’s membership, click the group’s name in the Inventory panel.

    The group’s members are displayed in the details panel on the right. You can work with those members the same way you work with the items in the view’s full listing.

    You can expand as many groups as you like. A vertical scroll bar provides navigation.