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Azure Image Storage using

Azure Compute Gallery


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Storing Images
• An image is a copy of either a full VM (including any attached data disks) or just the OS
disk, depending on how it is created.
• When you create a VM from the image, a copy of the VHDs in the image are used to
create the disks for the new VM.
• The image remains in storage and can be used over and over again to create new
VMs.
• If you have a large number of images that you need to maintain, and would like to
make them available throughout your company, you can use an Azure Compute
Gallery as a repository.
Resources Created For The Gallery
Image Definitions
• Image definitions are a logical grouping for versions of an image.
• The image definition holds information about why the image was created, what OS it
is for, and other information about using the image.
• An image definition is like a plan for all of the details around creating a specific image.
• You don't deploy a VM from an image definition, but from the image versions created
from the definition.
• There are three parameters for each image definition that are used in combination -
Publisher, Offer and SKU.
• These are used to find a specific image definition. You can have image versions that
share one or two, but not all three values.
Image Versions
An image version is what you use to create a VM. You can have multiple versions of an
image as needed for your environment. When you use an image version to create a VM,
the image version is used to create new disks for the VM. Image versions can be used
multiple times.

The properties of an image version are:

• Version number. This is used as the name of the image version. It is always in the
format: MajorVersion.MinorVersion.Patch. When you specify to use latest when
creating a VM, the latest image is chosen based on the highest MajorVersion, then
MinorVersion, then Patch.
• Source. The source can be a VM, managed disk, snapshot, managed image, or
another image version.
• Exclude from latest. You can keep a version from being used as the latest image
version.
• End of life date. Indicate the end-of-life date for the image version. End-of-life dates
are informational; users will still be able to create VMs from versions past the end-
of-life date.

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