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# Upload and manage Images

<div className="text">An image is a file that contains a virtual disk with an operating system that can be used to start a virtual machine in the cloud.</div>

<div className="text">Based on your role, you might be allowed to upload and manage these images. Sometimes, only cloud administrators or operators are allowed to do this. If you have the right permissions, you can use the dashboard in the admin project to upload and manage images.</div><br/>


<div className="text" style={{ fontSize:'28px' }}>Upload an image</div>
<div className="text">Follow this procedure to upload an image to a project:</div>
<div className="text"><ol><li>Log in to the dashboard.</li><li>Select the appropriate project from the drop down menu at the top left.</li><li>On the <span className="blue">Project</span> tab, open the <span className="blue">Compute</span> tab and click <span className="blue">Images</span> category.</li><li>Click Create Image.<br/>
The <span className="blue">Create An Image</span> dialog box appears.</li></ol></div><br/>

<img src={createImage} alt="create Image" /><br/><br/>

<div className="text">5. Enter the following values:</div>

<table>
  <tbody>
    <tr>
      <td><span className="blue">Image Name</span></td>
      <td>Enter a name for the image.</td>
      </tr>
    <tr>
      <td><span className="blue">Image Description</span></td>
      <td>Enter a brief description of the image.</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td><span className="blue">Image Source</span></td>
      <td>Choose the image source from the dropdown list. Your choices are <span className="blue">Image Location</span> and <span className="blue">Image File</span>.</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td><span className="blue">Image File or Image Location</span></td>
      <td>Based on your selection for <span className="blue">Image Source</span>, you either enter the location URL of the image in the <span className="blue">Image Location</span> field, or browse for the image file on your file system and add it.</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td><span className="blue">Format</span></td>
      <td>Select the image format (for example, QCOW2) for the image.</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td><span className="blue">Architecture</span></td>
      <td>Specify the architecture. For example, i386 for a 32-bit architecture or x86_64 for a 64-bit architecture.</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td><span className="blue">Minimum Disk (GB)</span></td>
      <td>Leave this field empty.</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td><span className="blue">Minimum RAM (MB)</span></td>
      <td>Leave this field empty.</td>
    </tr>
     <tr>
      <td><span className="blue">Copy Data</span></td>
      <td>Specify this option to copy image data to the Image service</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td><span className="blue">Visibility</span></td>
      <td>The access permission for the image. <span style={{ fontWeight: 'bold', color: 'green' }}>Public</span> or Private.</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td><span className="blue">Protected</span></td>
      <td>Select this check box to ensure that only users with permissions can delete the image. Yes or No.</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td><span className="blue">Image Metadata</span></td>
      <td>Specify this option to add resource metadata. The cloudtopiaa Metadata Catalog provides a list of metadata image definitions.</td>
    </tr>
  </tbody>
</table>


<div className="text">6. Click <span className="blue">Create Image</span>.<br/>
The image is queued to be uploaded. It might take some time before the status changes from Queued to Active.</div>


<div className="head">Update an image</div>
<div clssName="text">Follow this procedure to update an existing image.</div>
<div className="text"><ol><li>Log in to the dashboard.</li><li>Select the appropriate project from the drop down menu at the top left.</li><li>Select the image that you want to edit.</li><li>In the <span className="blue">Actions</span> column, click the menu button and then select <span className="blue">Edit Image</span> from the list.
</li><li>In the <span className="blue">Edit Image</span> dialog box, you can perform various actions. For example:<ul><li>Change the name of the image.</li><li>Change the description of the image.</li><li>Change the format of the image.</li><li>Change the minimum disk of the image.</li><li>Change the minimum RAM of the image.</li><li>Select the <span className="blue">Public</span> button to make the image public.</li><li>Clear the <span className="blue">Private</span> button to make the image private.</li><li>Change the metadata of the image.</li></ul></li><li>Click <span className="blue">Edit Image</span>.</li></ol></div><br/>

<img src={updateImage} alt="update Image" /><br/><br/>






<div className="head">Delete an image</div>
<div className="text">Deletion of images is permanent and <strong>cannot</strong> be reversed. Only users with the appropriate permissions can delete images.</div>

<div className="text"><ol><li>Log in to the dashboard.</li><li>Select the appropriate project from the drop down menu at the top left.</li><li>On the <span className="blue">Project</span> tab, open the <span className="blue">Compute</span> tab and click <span className="blue">Images</span> category.</li><li>Select the images that you want to delete.</li><li>Click <span className="blue">Delete Images</span></li><li>In the <span className="blue">Confirm Delete Images</span> dialog box, click <span className="blue">Delete Images</span> to confirm the deletion.</li></ol></div>


<img src={deleteImage} alt="delete Image" /><br/><br/>