General group hierarchies

Organizing resources into general groups and their subgroups can be helpful when you want to quickly view information about a group of resources, but you also want to view information about subgroups of resources within the group.

A general group hierarchy can contain up to five group levels and comprises these main elements:
  • The general group.
  • The subgroups. A general group can have child general groups, called subgroups. Each of the subgroups can also contain subgroups. The hierarchy can be up to five group levels deep.
  • The storage resources. Group storage resources that share common characteristics.
The following examples demonstrate some of the ways that you can use general group hierarchies in your business environment:
  • You can group the resources that are used by your production applications so that you can monitor all the resources and also monitor the specific subgroups of storage systems and ports.

    Add the storage systems to one group and the ports to another group. Then, add the groups as subgroups of a parent general group.

  • You can group the ports on your SAN Volume Controller so that you can monitor all the ports and also monitor the subgroups of ports that are used for inter-node communication and host I/O exchanges.

    Add the ports that are used for inter-node communication to one group and the ports that are used for host I/O exchanges to another group. Then, add the groups as subgroups of a parent general group.

To view information about the resources in a group hierarchy, click Groups > General Groups. Then, right-click a general group and select View Details. The Members section lists all the resources that are members of the general group or members of its subgroups.