IMS offers convenient, secure, flexible and efficient image management. Images enable you to provide services faster, easier and more securely.
Time and labour savings
- Deploying services to cloud servers is much faster and easier when you use images.
- A private image can be created from an ECS or an external image file. It can be a system, disc or full ECS image to suit your different requirements.
Security
- Public images provide common operating systems such as Ubuntu, Windows Server and CentOS. These operating systems have been thoroughly tested to provide secure and stable services.
- Multiple copies of the image files are stored in the Object Storage Service (OBS), providing excellent data reliability and resilience.
Flexibility
- You can manage images via the management console or via APIs.
- You can use a public image to provide a standard environment or a private image to create a customised environment.
- With IMS, you can migrate servers to the cloud or within the cloud and back up server environments.
Consistency
- IMS provides a self-service platform to simplify image management and maintenance.
- IMS enables batch provisioning and updating of application systems, improves operational and maintenance efficiency and ensures consistency.
- Public images conform to industry standards. Pre-installed components correspond to minimal installations, and only kernels from known third-party vendors are used to facilitate the transfer of images to or from other cloud platforms.
