My images

An image is an exact copy of a disk’s file system and its contents, which can be used to deploy virtual servers.

Two types of images can be used to create a virtual server:

Ready images - images prepared in advance by 3HCloud specialists. For each of them, the working environment was prepared, the necessary parameters were configured and the assembly was completed.

Own uploaded images - if you need an image to create a virtual server that is not in the list of ready ones then you can upload your own image in RAW format.

Creation of a new image

  1. In the Control Panel go to “Cloud / My images”.

  2. Click the “Create” button.

  3. Specify a name for the image. It is acceptable to use letters of the Latin alphabet, numbers, and symbols (within reasonable limits).

  4. Attach the image file by clicking the “Attach file” button. The expected format of the image is RAW.

  5. Select the region where you plan to create your virtual server. The image will be available in all zones of the selected region.

  • Warsaw, Poland;

  • Miami, USA;

  • Dallas, USA;

  • San Francisco, USA;

  • Manila, Philippines;

  • Almaty, Kazakhstan.

  1. To finish click the “Create image” button. The attached file will be uploaded to the temporary storage container and the uploaded file will be imported into the created image. The operation time depends on the speed of your computer’s Internet connection and the size of the downloaded file.

  2. Upon successful upload of the file the image will appear in the “Cloud” / “My images” section.

Creation of a server using an image from “My images”

Creating a virtual server based on your own image doesn’t differ from creating an ordinary virtual server. The only difference is that one of the pre-added images is selected at the stage of operating system selection.

Deleting an image

  1. In the Control Panel go to “Cloud” / “My images”.

  2. For the selected image click on the down arrow button and select “Delete” from the drop-down list.

  3. Confirm the deletion of the image by clicking on “Confirm” In the window that appears.

Image download

If you want to copy your virtual server and deploy it on your machine, you can download a RAW image of your server using these steps:

  1. Backup the system disk;

  2. Create a disk from the backup;

  3. Create a new empty disk of similar size;

  4. Connect the new empty disk and the disk that is restored from the backup to the server;

  5. Using the DD utility, copy your disk (restored from the backup) to the new empty disk.

For example:

dd if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/sdc/image.raw bs=100M bs=4096 conv=notrunc,noerror status=progress

Done, “image.raw” is the image you need.