Mini-tutorial: Custom Groups in VMTurbo
"Groups" are a way for you to monitor and manage customized portions of your infrastructure, selecting groups to focus on those specific resources. For example, you might want to look at all VMs in a particular department; explore only specific servers across several clusters; or a cloud service provider may want to create a group to monitor just the VMs of a specific customer.
VMTurbo products ship with some groups already defined, and with Group Configuration feature, you can also create your own groups using two grouping methods:
- By criteria — You create dynamic groups that are defined by specific search criteria. You can group services according to naming conventions (all VM names that start with “ny”), resource characteristics (all physical machines with four CPUs), or by variable metrics (all VMs with more than 80% utilization). These groups are dynamic because the appliance updates the group as conditions changes. For example, the VMs at 80% utilization can change continually — the group will update with those changes.
- By manual selection — You create static groups by selecting the specific group members.
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