Creating groups

Note:

This topic describes features that are available in the new design of the user interface. This new design is enabled by default. If you switched to the legacy design, click New Feature Toggle button in the navigation bar of the user interface and then turn on the toggle to re-enable the new design. For more information, see New Design for the User Interface.

Groups assemble collections of resources for Turbonomic to monitor and manage. When setting scope for your Turbonomic session, you can select groups to focus on those specific resources. For example, if you have a number of VMs devoted to a single customer, you can create a group of just those VMs. When running a planning scenario you can set the scope to work with just that group.

Turbonomic discovers groups that exist in your environment and allows you to create custom groups. Turbonomic supports two custom-grouping methods:

  • Dynamic — You define these groups by specific criteria. You can group services according to naming conventions (all VM names that start with ny), resource characteristics (all hosts with four CPUs), or other criteria such as time zone or number of CPUs.

    These groups are dynamic because Turbonomic updates the group as conditions change.

  • Static — You create these groups by selecting the specific group members.

Note:

Do not use the Turbonomic user interface to delete discovered groups. If you do, later analysis cycles will discover them again, and add them to your environment. In the meantime, any analysis that relies on those groups can give unexpected results.

You can delete any custom group you have created. Before you do, verify that you do not have any charts, plans, or policies that use the group you want to delete. After you delete the group, such charts, plans, or policies will lose their scope. For example, a policy with no scope has no effect.

To create a group:

  1. Navigate to the Settings Page.

    Settings button

    Click to navigate to the Settings Page. From there, you can perform a variety of Turbonomic configuration tasks.

  2. Choose Groups.

    Groups button

    Click to navigate to the Group Management Page.

    This page lists all the custom groups that you currently have configured for Turbonomic.

  3. Perform tasks in the Group Management page.

    Group Management page

    You can perform any of the following tasks:

    • Sort by name or severity.

    • Search for groups.

    • Edit a group by clicking the pencil icon.

      For a dynamic group, edit the criteria to select group members. For a static group, you can add or remove specific members.

    • Filter by name using regular expressions.

    • Download a list of groups.

    • Expand an entry to see group details.

      Click the Show more details button Show more details button to see group details.

    • Select an entry to delete the groups

    • Create new groups.

    To work with a long list of groups, you can filter by group type. For example, only show groups of VMs, or groups of host machines. You can also type a string in the Search field to filter the list.

  4. Expand an entry to see group details.

    View of Group details

    The details show you information about related entities such as how many hosts provide resources for a group of VMs. If there are any pending actions for the group, the details list those actions as well.

  5. Create a new group.

    Click NEW GROUP, choose a group type, and then specify the group settings.

    Create new group process
    • Give the group a unique name. To prevent issues, you should never use duplicate names for groups of the same entity type.

    • Set whether the group will be static or dynamic.

      To create a static group, select the member entities from the list. To filter the list, set group criteria.

      To create a dynamic group, set group criteria. The list updates to show the resulting group members.

    • When you are finished, save the group.