The global search displays the total number of results, but only the top 20 search results are accessible. Because of this, the global search functionality can be thought of as a shortcut tool for finding specific items if you know the items you want to quickly locate. For complete search results, you can use the search in the object inventory pages and its associated filtering functionality.

You can click the Type drop-down box and select All to simultaneously search across all objects and events. Alternatively, you can click the Type drop-down box to specify the object type. Type any number of characters of the object or event name into the Search all Storage Objects field, and then press Enter or click Search All to display the search results, such as:

In this example, the Type drop-down box has the Volume object type selected. Typing “vol” into the Search all Storage Objects field displays a list of all volumes whose names contain these characters. For object searches, you can click any search result to navigate to that object's Performance Explorer page. For event searches, clicking an item in the search result navigates to the Event Details page.