Hello Mark,
Thanks for the response. Yes you are correct, the SM does work when defined with the i/o metrics you defined. I have accomplished the same with other metrics included in the environment container. The issue is that while I can complete the task at hand against the values in the environment container, it doesn't work with the other metrics that I need.
So it comes down to being able to accomplish the same end with other metrics I need to pull. This is the fundamental query, how do I accomplish the same goal of creating a subset of datastores/VMs to capture all the metrics associated with the requested attributes. When added to a custom group, all the metrics are not available. Is there another way to accomplish the subset or is that all I have for options?