In the top panel you can create, edit, delete, clone, export, and import views. The views list depends on the object you select from the environment. Each view is associated with an object. For example, the predefined VM inventory - Memory list view is available when you select a host.

You can limit the views list by adding a filter from the right side of the panel. Each of the provided filter groups limits the list by the word you type.

The All Filters option helps you to list views according to the following criteria:

Name
Type
Description
Subject
Owner

For example, if you select

Description

and type

my view

, the listed views are all views that are applicable for the selected object and contain

my view

in the description.

In the bottom panel of the

Views

tab, you can see the data of the object, calculated by a selected view from the top panel. Say, for example, the selected object is a host and you select Virtual Machine Configuration Summary List View. The result is a list of all the virtual machines on that host, and their data calculated by the view.

For Trend views, you can select a parent object and see the data of the associated child objects and metrics in the bottom panel of the

Views

tab.

For Distribution views, you can click on a section of the pie chart or on one of the bars in the bar chart to view the list of objects filtered by the selected segment, in the bottom panel of the

Views

tab.