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Understanding groups

You can create groups in Unified Manager to manage storage objects. Understanding the concepts about groups and how group rules enable you to add storage objects to a group will help you to manage the storage objects in your environment.

  • What a group is
    A group is a dynamic collection of heterogeneous storage objects (clusters, SVMs, or volumes). You can create groups in Unified Manager to easily manage a set of storage objects. The members in a group might change, depending on the storage objects that are monitored by Unified Manager at a point in time.
  • How group rules work for groups
    A group rule is a criterion that you define to enable storage objects (volumes, clusters, or SVMs) to be included in a specific group. You can use condition groups or conditions for defining group rule for a group.
  • How group actions work on storage objects
    A group action is an operation that is performed on all the storage objects in a group. For example, you can configure volume threshold group action to simultaneously change the volume threshold values of all volumes in a group.
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