Specifications

basis for other activities, such as creating trends, alerts, or performance charts, or
for data export, select an action.
The search query actions are the following:
l Create Alert: Creates a new alert based on the search query.
l Trend Results: Creates a new trend based on the search query.
l Export Results: Creates a spreadsheet of properties from the search
results in the Data Export module.
l Plan: Creates a capacity plan from the search results.
l Explore Facets: Opens the Data Center Visualizer with the search results
from the search query in context.
Search language
The Virtualization Manager search language is a powerful search syntax with
which you can create multi-clause, proper-name, instance-based search queries.
Queries are composed of terms and operators. A term can be a single term or a
phrase. A single term is a single word such as “windows” or “west”. A phrase is a
group of words surrounded by quotation marks, such as “windows west”.
Multiple terms can be combined with Boolean operators to form more complex
queries. If there are multiple terms, they are implicitly joined together with AND
clauses meaning that all clauses must be true for the search results.
The following advanced search syntax elements are also supported:
l Wildcards
l Fuzzy searches
l Proximity searches
l Range queries
l Term relevance boosting
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Search language