Working with CVD Collections

Users with the Image Manager role or Administrator role can work with CVD collections. You can group in a collection folder CVDs that share a logical relation to other CVDs. You can use the collections to update their policies, set drivers, or perform an action on the device such as restarting the device or synchronizing the device with the Mirage server.

For example, you can aggregate all CVDs of users in the marketing department to a folder under a collection called Marketing. Then you can perform updates on the CVDs that all the Marketing CVDs share all at once.

Mirage supports static and dynamic collections. You manually assign CVDs to a static collection, while CVD assignments to dynamic collections are calculated based on predefined filters every time an operation is applied to a collection.

A CVD can be a member of multiple collections. If different base layers or policies are applied to different collections and a CVD belongs to more than one, the last change applied takes effect.

To view additional information for the layers assigned to a collection, click the number in the Number of Layer Assignments column.

You can perform various operations on CVD collections.

Table 1. Working with CVD Collections

Option	Description
Create New	Create a dynamic collection or static collection of CVDs.
Edit	Edit a CVD collection.
Delete	Delete a CVD collection.
Sync	Synchronize all CVDs in a CVD collection.
Suspend	Suspend the network operation of CVDs in a CVD collection.
Resume	Resume network operation of CVDs in a CVD collection.
Restart	Force a restart all devices in a CVD collection.
Assign Base Layer	Assign a base layer to all devices in a CVD collection.
Assign App Layer	Assign an app layer to all devices in a CVD collection.
Enforce Layers	Enforce all layers to resolve any issues with corrupted files and registry settings that were provisioned through a layer. You can preserve user applications, or remove user applications when you enforce layers.
Migrate Windows OS	An upload policy determines which files and directories to upload from the user endpoint to the CVD in the data center. You can assign an upload policy to all CVDs in a collection or to an individual CVD in a collection.
Apply Driver Library	Apply hardware-specific drivers to a CVD collection.
Assign Upload Policy	Assign an upload policy to a CVD collection to determine which files and directories are uploaded from the user endpoints to the CVD collection.