Manage your images

An image is a saved copy of a server’s disk that new servers can start from. The Images page lists your own images: snapshots of your servers, and images made from volumes and backups. Our standard operating systems are not listed here. You pick them when you deploy a server.

Stored images are billed per GB-month for the space they use. The rate is on Check rates and limits as Image Storage, and an image’s page shows an estimate of its own cost.

Open Images

1. Open Infrastructure in the side menu.
2. Select Images, under Storage & Backups.

Read the list

Each row shows Name, Operating System, Status, Size, Minimum Disk, Format, Created and ID.

• Status is Active when the image is ready. Queued, Saving, Uploading or Importing mean it is still being made.
• Deployable means you can deploy new servers from it. Not Deployable means you can’t yet. An image can deploy a server only once its status is Active.
• Minimum Disk is the smallest boot disk a server needs to use this image.
• Protected means it can’t be deleted.

An image made from a backup or a volume shows where it came from, for example From a Volume, and whether a server has booted from it:

• Not Yet Booted means no server has started from it yet. It shows Verified after the first one does.
• Verified means a server booted from it.
• Boot Not Confirmed means a server started but showed no sign-in prompt.
• Boot Failed means a server made from it didn’t finish starting. That server is kept so you can look at it.

Open an image

Select an image’s name. Its page shows its Status, where it was Made From, its First Boot, its Operating System, the Minimum Disk and Minimum Memory a server needs, its Size, Disk Format and ID. Select Deploy From This Image to start a server from it.

Deploy from an image

Select Deploy From This Image in the row menu. The deploy form opens with the image chosen under My Images. See Deploy a server.

Rename or delete an image

1. Open the row menu.
2. Select Rename Image, type the Image Name (1 to 64 characters) and confirm. Servers already deployed from it aren’t affected. Only the name can change: the Operating System, Minimum Disk and Minimum Memory show under Fixed at Creation.
3. Or select Delete Image and confirm. You won’t be able to deploy new servers from it. This can’t be undone.

Make a new image

• From a server: take a snapshot. See Back up and restore servers and volumes.
• From a backup: use Convert to Image. See Back up and restore servers and volumes.
• From a volume: use Create Image on the volume’s page. See Manage a volume.

If something goes wrong

• This image is protected, so it can’t be deleted.
• A server was deployed from this image and still uses it. Delete or rebuild that server first.
• Read Only means the image wasn’t created in Lighthouse, so it can’t be changed here.