On screens with lists, the platform offers a search box. It may also offer a filter button, to open a filter dialog with text boxes.
Enter a text string and the platform will retrieve all entities with that string in their text fields
OR Enter a text containing one or more wildcard asterisk characters.
For example, with VMs, to display all VMs in your tenant:
On the main menu, click the cloud icon to go to myCloud view
Go to Virtual datacenters → Virtual Machines tab
To filter by VM name, enter characters that are in the VM Name.
When you enter "Server", the platform retrieves the VMs with "Server" in their name. This is the same as entering "*Server*"
To clear the filter, click the x
Entering "*1" only displays the VMs with "1" at the end of the name. You can also use a wildcard at the end of the text
You can filter on special characters, e.g. "("
To filter by the more fields, click the funnel Filter button and enter filter text.
For example, for a VM the search filter fields are:
UUID
Fully qualified domain name
Virtual datacenter
Virtual appliance
Provider ID
To remove a filter, click the Clear link