Managing With Groups; Understanding Groups - Novell PLATESPIN ORCHESTRATE 2.0.2 - VM CLIENT GUIDE AND REFERENCE 06-17-2009 Client Manual

Managing with Groups

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You use groups to manage the items listed in the Inventory panel:
Section 9.1, "Understanding Groups," on page 145
Section 9.2, "Creating a Group," on page 146
Section 9.3, "Adding Members to an Existing Group," on page 146
Section 9.4, "Removing Members from a Group," on page 147
Section 9.5, "Deleting a Group," on page 148

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:
Groups in the Inventory Perspective of the VM Client
Figure 9-1
The presence of the icon indicates that the Inventory type has groups within it. It changes to the
icon when you click the icon to expand the groups list.
To view groups and group memberships:
1 In the VM Client, click the 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.
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