Manage External Collections (Console)

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This page covers how to manage an external collection via the Zilliz Cloud web console.

Create an external collection

Before you start, ensure you have created an external volume.

1

Navigate to your target database. You can either select a database in Serving Clusters or in On-Demand Compute.

2

Click on ... and select Create Collection.

3

Configure your external collection.

4

Click on Create.

Notes

• External collections created in an on-demand compute database do not support dropping indexes.

• You can create an external collection only in an on-demand compute database. Support for creating external collections in serving Dedicated clusters is coming soon.

• Creating an external collection from a collection on another dedicated cluster (the milvus:// source) is currently available through SDKs and the RESTful API only — the console does not support this source type.

Refresh data

1

Navigate to your target external collection.

2

Click on Refresh.

3

Read the information and click on Refresh.

Enable query mode

Before you start, ensure you have deleted the vector index.

1

Navigate to your target external collection.

2

Turn on the switch next to Query Mode.

3

Click on Enable.

Drop an external collection

Dropping an external collection will only remove the schema, manifest, and indexes on Zilliz Cloud. Your data remains intact in your object storage.

1

Navigate to your target external collection.

2

Click on Actions and then select Drop.

3

Enter the collection name and click on Drop.