Use these instructions to copy an image that is used by
the IBM Cloud
Manager with OpenStack self-service
portal from one region to another.
About this task
To copy an image that is used by the self-service portal
in region r1 to region r2, use
the following procedure. The examples assume that the file openrc contains
credentials for authenticating to region r1. This
file could be the openrc file that is installed on the region r1 controller.
Procedure
- View the original image in the self-service portal and
note the following properties:
- Name: myimage
- UUID: 90a8c085-5014-4a19-9001-3593f0389582
- Disk format: QCOW2
- Container Format: BARE
- Minimum memory: 0
- Minimum storage: 0
- Additional Properties:
- architecture:: x86_64
- hypervisor_type: qemu
- Extract the image file for the image. You can extract the
image file by using OpenStack APIs
or CLI from any system. For convenience, the glance image-download CLI
on the region r1 controller is used in this example.
# . openrc
# glance image-download --file myimage.img 90a8c085-5014-4a19-9001-3593f0389582
Note: If
you already have the image file, for example, from importing the original
image into the self-service portal, you do not need to extract the
image.
- If necessary, transfer the image file to the system where
your web browser is running or to a system where you have HTTP access
to the image file.
- From the self-service portal, go to the Image tab
to import the image. Select the cloud for region r2.
Then, enter the path or URL to the image file and the other information
that you collected in the first step of this process.
- Using the self-service portal, edit the new image and set
other properties to match the original image. The additional properties
might include information such as the image configuration and deployment
strategy.