Overview: Images (Cloud Panel)

For Virtual Private Server, Cloud Servers, and Dedicated Servers managed in the Cloud Panel

In the Infrastructure > Images section of the IONOS Cloud Panel, all of the images you created are listed in a table. This table lists the most important information about each image:

Viewing the Images Section

  • Log in to your IONOS account.
  • Click on the Server & Cloud tile. If you have multiple contracts, select the desired Server & Cloud contract.

  • In the navigation bar on the left, click Infrastructure > Images.

Structure of the Images section

In Cloud Panel, in the Infrastructure > Images area, all the images you have created are listed in a table. This table lists the most important information about each image:

Name: Name of the image. You can change the name at any time.

Status: Current status of the image.

  • Image being created: The image is currently being created. The progress is shown as a percentage.

  • Active: The image is active. You can use the image to create a new server or to restore an existing server.

  • Will be deleted: The image is being deleted.

OS: Operating system

Type: Type of the image. In the Cloud Panel, you can use the Image and ISO types.

Size: size of the image

Data center: IONOS data center where the image can be used.

To access all of the information about the image, select the desired image. Further detailed information is then displayed:

Below the table, the name of the image is listed again. Below that, the description of the image appears. You can change both the name and the description of the image at any time.

Operating system: Operating system of the server from which the image was created

Licenses: Indicates whether a custom license key must be entered.

Source: The server from which the image was created.

Interval: Interval of automatic image creation. The maximum number of image versions you can create is displayed next to the selected interval.

  • Once: Automatic image creation is disabled. Only one image is created.

  • Daily (X images): Automatic image creation is enabled. The image of the selected server is created daily.

  • Weekly (X Images): Automatic image creation is enabled. The image of the selected server will be created weekly.

Created on: Date on which the image was created.

History: The history lists all of the actions that you have performed in the Infrastructure > Images section of the Cloud Panel.

You can find more information in the following articles:

Images: General Information

Creating an Image

Reinstalling an Image