Editing image template properties (OpenStack only)

IBM® Cloud Manager with OpenStack supports viewing and editing a subset of the properties that are stored with an image template in the OpenStack cloud.

Procedure

  1. In the IBM Cloud Manager with OpenStack dashboard, click an image template to view or edit the properties of that image template.
  2. The following basic OpenStack image template properties can be edited: name, disk format, container format, minimum memory (MB), and minimum storage (GB).
  3. Optional: You can also view, create, update, and delete additional OpenStack image template properties. The additional properties might include architecture, hypervisor_type, kernel_id, ramdisk_id, os_version or os_distro. For more information about OpenStack image template properties, see the OpenStack Compute Administration Guide at http://docs.openstack.org/admin-guide-cloud/content/section_image template-mgmt.html.

    Some of the additional OpenStack image template properties are specific to certain OpenStack hypervisor types. For example, the KVM hypervisor supports the hw_vif_model, hw_disk_bus and hw_cdrom_bus properties. For more information about these properties, see Libvirt Custom Hardware Configuration at https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/LibvirtCustomHardware.

    Notes:
    • An image template configuration strategy is part of the additional OpenStack image template properties. However, the configuration strategy cannot be viewed or edited with this task.
    • To deploy an image template to an OpenStack KVM hypervisor, the qemu value is used for the hypervisor_type property of the image template.