Navigation grouping

This feature enables you to quickly manage and navigate complex or well-populated systems by alleviating problems associated with having large client and virtual machine installations used by varying administrators. Navigation groups allow you to create custom folders to organize your clients and virtual machines. Navigation groups can be used to create backup, restore, or archive schedules, as well as generate reports. For details on generating reports, see User-generated reports.

When an item is removed from a group, or the group is deleted, all items are returned to their original place in the Navigation pane.

Navigation grouping is supported on appliances running version 7.5 or higher. The following items can be grouped:

     Clients, such as Windows or Linux servers

     Hyper-V virtual machines

     VMware virtual machines

     Resource pools

     vApps

     VMware templates

See the following topics for details:

     Visibility of grouped items

     Navigation group procedures