Create an OS Image

Create an image of the virtual machine configured per your site's requirements. You can choose to keep the image and use it to update your bursting image with patches, new applications etc. You can bring the instance online, patch and then recreate the image at your discretion. The saving in build and management time for the images will offset the additional storage costs.

You must have already create a virtual machine, installed Accelerator on the VM and configured the VM per your site's environment.

GCP documentation can be found at Creating, Deleting, and Deprecating Custom Images.

  1. Login to the GCP console.
  2. Click the navigation menu () located in the upper left-hand corner of the web page.
  3. Click Compute Engine > VM instances.
    A list of virtual machines is displayed.
  4. Click next to the virtual machine that was created for cloud bursting.
    Figure 1. Bursting Virtual Machine

    Bursting Virtual Machine
  5. Click Stop.
    It may take some time for the VM to be stopped. Do not proceed until the VM is stopped.
  6. Click Images from the menu located on the left-hand side of the web page.
    CAUTION: Do NOT choose Machine images.
    Figure 2. Images

    Images
  7. Click CREATE IMAGE.
  8. Enter the following to create an image:
    1. For Name, enter a name for the image.
      The name can be anything meaningful to your organization, e.g., bursting-image.
    2. For Source, select Disk.
    3. For Source disk, select the previously created virtual machine.
    4. For Location, select regional to save costs.
  9. Click Create.
    It may take some time to create the image. Do not proceed until the image is created.
You can now delete the virtual machine so that you are no longer charged for it.