Upload an image

On the top navigation bar, click Cloud Services, and then select Images from the Compute menu.

On the Public or Private tab, click Create.

Configure image parameters as described in "Parameters."

Click OK.

Parameters

Parameter		Description
Disk Format	VMDK	Select the disk adapter type and network adapter type consistent with the uploaded image. Hypervisor: You can select only VMware. Disk Type: Only the Stream Optimization type is supported. Disk Adapter Type: Available options include SCSI (LSI logic), SCSI (LSI Logic SAS), SCSI (Bus logic), SCSI (VMware Paravirtual), and IDE. Network Adapter Type: Available options include e1000, e1000e, vmxnet2, and vmxnet3. Operating System Type: Select the operating system that is contained in the image file. Available options include Windows, Linux, Red Hat, CentOS, Ubuntu, Oracle, Debian, SUSE, and Asianux. Image Type: Defined on the image types page. By default, the common operating systems and versions exist for the CAS and VMware hypervisors in the system. If no matching operating system version exists, see "Manage image types" for how to customize operating system versions. Min CPUs: Specify the minimum number of CPUs to be assigned to a cloud host when the image is used to create the cloud host. Min Memory: Specify the minimum memory size to be assigned to a cloud host when the image is used to create the cloud host. Min Disk Size: Specify the minimum disk size to be assigned to a cloud host when the image is used to create the cloud host. Disk Provisioning Mode: Options include Thick and Thin. The thick mode is a traditional storage provisioning mode. In the thick provisioning mode, the system preprovisions a large amount of storage space to meet future storage requirements. However, the preprovisioned storage space might never be used. As a result, the storage is not well utilized. In the thin provisioning mode, the storage space is allocated on demand flexibly, so that the storage can be well utilized. The value for this parameter must be the same as that in the upload image file.
	A type except VMDK	Select the disk format compatible with the image file Hypervisor: Select a hypervisor according to the virtualization platform. In the current software version, options include VMware, KVM, CAS, XEN, PowerVM, BareMetal, HP-UX VSP, and Hyper-V. Framework Type (displayed when the hypervisor is CAS): Type of the CPU framework. Options include x86 and ARM. Operating System Type: Select the operating system that is contained in the image file. In the current software version, available options include Windows, Linux, Red Hat, CentOS, Ubuntu, Oracle, Debian, SUSE, Asianux, and BSD (available when the hypervisor is CAS). Image Type: Defined on the image types page. By default, the common operating systems and versions exist for the CAS and VMware hypervisors in the system. If no matching operating system version exists, see "Manage image types" for how to customize operating system versions. Boot Mode (displayed when the hypervisor is CAS): Options include BIOS and UEFI. For the boot mode to take effect, make sure it is the same as that in the uploaded image file. Video Card Mode (displayed when the hypervisor is CAS): Options include cirrus, vga, and qxl. For the video card mode to take effect, make sure it is the same as that in the uploaded image file. Min CPUs: Specify the minimum number of CPUs to be assigned to a cloud host when the image is used to create the cloud host. Min Memory: Specify the minimum memory size to be assigned to a cloud host when the image is used to create the cloud host. Min Disk Size: Specify the minimum disk size to be assigned to a cloud host when the image is used to create the cloud host.
Image Format (displayed when the hypervisor type is VMware or CAS)		Typically, the default image format is bare. The OVF files exported from VMware include the OVF file (which specifies the folder of files) and OVA file (which specifies a single file). The bare format corresponds to the .vmdk file in the three files exported in OVF format. You can upload a container image in docket format.
Image Type		Defined on the image type creation page. By default, the common operating systems and versions exist for the CAS and VMware hypervisors in the system. If no matching operating system version exists, see "Manage image types" for how to customize operating system versions.
Upload From	Local	Select this option to upload an image file from a local directory.
	FTP/SFTP Server	Upload an image file through FTP or SFTP. To obtain the MD5 value, see the remarks. Enter the MD5 value, and click Check. After the MD5 value passes the check, click OK to upload the image file.
FTP Username FTP Password		Specify the username and password for logging in to the FTP server. The username is admin, and cannot be edited. To view or edit the password, click . These two parameters are available if you select to upload the image through FTP or SFTP.

When the virtualization platform is CAS, ARM and x86 architectures are supported.

When an image is uploaded, make sure the attributes of the uploaded image file are correct. If some attributes of an image file are incorrect, the image file will fail to be pushed correctly.