Images

Images

An image represents a category of virtual machine or disk. You can create an image by uploading an OVA, vmdk, or ISO file to the system's shared image store. You can also create an image by capturing an instance of a powered-off VM or unattached disk. The system administrator typically provisions the system with a variety of images to share across all tenants.

Tenants can also create images of their own that are not shared with other tenants. An image does not include any information about the resources the virtual machine or disk consumes. Before you can use a VM or disk image, a system administrator must create one or more flavors of the appropriate kind.

Creating Images

As described in the preparing for cluster deployments, creating an image is very simple:

photon image create <image_filename> -n <image_name> -i <image_type>

Verifying Upload

You can verify the image was uploaded properly by examining the output of photon image list.