Overview

This section describes how to create and manage disk Images.

In OpenNenbula there are two main places where VM disk images are stored:

  • Marketplaces, which are shared locations across multiple OpenNebula clouds. They can be public or for private use. Marketplaces store Marketplace Applications (or Appliances), that includes the application definition together with the disk images.
  • Datastores, which are the local storage areas of a cloud. They typically refer to storage clusters or hypervisor disks and are mainly devoted to store disk images.

After reading this section, you can consult Virtual Machine Definitions. Here you will find descriptions of how VMs are defined in Virtual Machine Templates, which are instantiated to become Virtual Machines, i.e. Virtual Machine Instances.

Hypervisor Compatibility

These guides are compatible with all hypervisors.