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.
To display all VMs in your tenant:
Go to myCloud view → Virtual datacenters → Virtual Machines tab
To filter by VM name, enter characters that are in the VM Name (the friendly name entered by the user or the name of the VM template
When you enter "Server" in the Virtual machine Name text box, the platform retrieves the VMs with "Server" in their name. This is the same as entering "*Server*"
To clear the Virtual machine name 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 following fields, click the funnel Filter button and enter filter text.
VM search filter fields:
UUID
Fully qualified domain name
Virtual datacenter
Virtual appliance
Provider ID
To remove the filter, click the Clear link