Images screen details

Overview screen details

The overview screen shows the current list of defined images.

Screen component	Description
OS type	Operating system of the image. Values are RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux), Microsoft Windows, or Other.
Used by	Number of virtual machine instances running the image. If a value other than none is displayed, click the link to see information about instances running this image. See Overview screen details.
Description	Optional description of the image.
Status	Status of the image. Values are: Active—Image upload or creation is complete, and it is available for use. Unknown—Image status is unknown. Creating—Image is being processed for uploading or snapshot creation. Saving—Image data is being saved onto disk.
Size	Size of the image, in gigabytes (GB).
Shared	Whether users who are not Infrastructure administrators can share this image to create virtual machine instances. Values are: Enabled—Sharing is allowed. Disabled—Sharing is not allowed.
Minimum RAM	Minimum memory requirement to create a virtual machine instance from the image, in gigabytes (GB).
Date created	Date and time that the image was added.
Minimum disk	Minimum disk requirement to create a virtual machine instance from the image, in gigabytes (GB).
Date updated	Date and time of the most recent update of the image.
Disk format	Format of the disk containing the image. Values are: qcow2—Quick EMUlator (QEMU) copy-on-write format, version 2 vmdk—VMware virtual machine disk format
Owner	User name of the user or administrator who added the image.
Container format	Format of the image metadata file. The metadata file describes the requirements for running the image. Values are: bare—No container or metadata envelope for the image ovf—Open Virtualization Format, an open XML-based file format ami—Amazon machine image aki—Amazon kernel image ari—Amazon RAM image
Access list	Users who have permission to access this image.
Source	Origin of the image, or method by which the image is added to the list. Values are: URL—Image added from a URL specifying a file server. Upload—Image added by uploading from a local file location. Snapshot—Image created from a snapshot of an instance. See Create image from a snapshot of a virtual machine.
Glance ID	OpenStack Image Service (Glance) identifier, in UUID format. Glance provides discovery, registration, and delivery services for disk and server images. See OpenStack Glance.
Read-only	Whether you, or other Infrastructure administrator users, can delete the image. Values are: Enabled—You cannot delete the image. You must use the Edit image screen to change this setting back to Disabled before deleting the image. See Add or Edit Image screen details. Disabled—You can delete the image.
Hypervisor type	Virtualization technology defined in the image, for example, VMware.

Add or Edit Image screen details


	IMPORTANT: After adding a Windows image to boot ESX virtual machines, you must set custom attributes on the image using the OpenStack Glance CLI. For detailed information, see the HP CloudSystem Administrator Guide at Enterprise Information Library.

Screen component

Description

Specify image

Method for selecting the image to add. Options are:

Enter file URL—Enter the file server URL where the image is located.
Select local file— Browse to and select the local image file.

Name

A unique name to identify the image.

Data type:	A maximum of 255 alphanumeric and special characters, including spaces.
Default:	URL or file name automatically populated from the Specify image value.

Description

Optional description of the image.

Data type:

A maximum of 1000 alphanumeric and special characters, including spaces.

OS type

Operating system specified in the image.

Disk format

Format of the underlying disk for the image.

Container format

Format of the image metadata file. The metadata file describes the requirements for running the image.

Shared

Whether users who are not infrastructure administrators can share this image to create virtual machine instances. Values are:

Enabled—Allow sharing.
Disabled—Do not allow sharing.

Default value:

Enabled

Read-only

Whether you, or other infrastructure administrators, can delete the image.

Enabled—Do not allow the image to be deleted.
Disabled—Allow the image to be deleted.

Default value:

Disabled

Image actions

Screen component	Description
Add	Upload an image and add it to the appliance. See Add Image.
Edit	Modify the metadata of an existing image. Only the image metadata can be modified with this action. See Edit Image.
Delete	Remove the image from the CloudSystem Console and CloudSystem Portal, making it unavailable for use when deploying virtual machine instances. See Delete Image.

See also

Compute: Images

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