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Have same functionality and features like the one from the Client Images.

Create new image

To create a new image click the plus (+) button from the bottom-right - “Create Image”.

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On the next page fill in these fields:

  • Region: Select the region where this image should be created

  • Image name: Give the image a name

  • Minimum disk size: The amount of disk space.

  • Minimum required RAM (MB): The amount of RAM.

  • Disk format:

    • raw This is an unstructured disk image format

    • vhd This is the VHD disk format, a common disk format used by virtual machine monitors from VMware, Xen, Microsoft, VirtualBox, and others

    • vhdx This is the VHDX disk format, an enhanced version of the vhd format which supports larger disk sizes among other features.

    • vmdk Another common disk format supported by many common virtual machine monitors

    • vdi A disk format supported by VirtualBox virtual machine monitor and the QEMU emulator

    • iso An archive format for the data contents of an optical disc (e.g. CDROM).

    • qcow2 A disk format supported by the QEMU emulator that can expand dynamically and supports Copy on Write

    • aki This indicates what is stored in Glance is an Amazon kernel image

    • ari This indicates what is stored in Glance is an Amazon ramdisk image

    • ami This indicates what is stored in Glance is an Amazon machine image

  • Visibility: Public, shared, community or private.

  • Is protected: Image delete protection.

  • Architecture: Set operating system on 32 bit or 64 bit.

  • OS distro: Set operating system.

  • OS version: Set operating system version.

  • Image source: Select the source for the actual image data by uploading a file or setting an url

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Note that if you try to upload a large image the upload may fail, if so you may want edit nginx configuration and adjust client_max_body_size setting. By default Fleio allows image sizes up to 5000MiB.

Updating an image

To update an image, click the following button from the actions area of an image:

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You will be redirected to a new page with two tabs:

  • Edit Image: edit the same fields as in the create image page

  • Properties: set or remove custom properties for the image

Edit Image tab

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Properties tab

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Here you can add custom properties for the image that will be saved in the properties key from the image object. You can add new fields by clicking the (+) button and remove them by clicking the x button.