How group rules work for groups

A group rule is a criterion that you define to enable storage objects (volumes, clusters, or SVMs) to be included in a specific group. You can use condition groups or conditions for defining group rule for a group.


You can create multiple condition groups, and each condition group can have one or more conditions. You can apply all the defined condition groups in a group rule for groups in order to specify which storage objects are included in the group.

Conditions within a condition group are executed using logical AND. All the conditions in a condition group must be met. When you create or modify a group rule, a condition is created that applies, selects, and groups only those storage objects that satisfy all conditions in the condition group. You can use multiple conditions within a condition group when you want to narrow the scope of which storage objects to include in a group.

You can create conditions with storage objects by using the following operands and operator and specifying the required value.

Storage object type Applicable operands
  • Object name
  • Owning cluster name
  • Owning SVM name
  • Annotations
  • Object name
  • Owning cluster name
  • Annotations
  • Object name
  • Annotations

When you select annotation as an operand for any storage object, the Is operator is available. For all other operands, you can select either Is or Contains as operator.

Example of a group rule with conditions

Consider a condition group for a volume with the following two conditions:

This condition group selects all volumes that include vol in their names and that are hosted on SVMs with the name data_svm.

Condition groups

Condition groups are executed using logical OR, and then applied to storage objects. The storage objects must satisfy one of the condition groups to be included in a group. The storage objects of all the condition groups are combined. You can use condition groups to increase the scope of storage objects to include in a group.

Example of a group rule with condition groups

Consider two condition groups for a volume, with each group containing the following two conditions:

When a group rule containing these two condition groups is applied on storage objects, then the following storage objects are added to a selected group: