{"type":"doc","content":[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"Installing a guest operating system is a very common task upon VM creation, and in order to reduce deployment time, we have included the ability of mounting an ISO image right after a VM has been created. With this users can power on the VM and start installing the desired OS without remotely mounting the ISO image, which depending of user’s bandwidth, could take longer because it has to transmit the ISO file contents to the VM.","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"Public and personal ISO images can be managed with the ","type":"text"},{"text":"vss-cli compute iso","type":"text","marks":[{"type":"code"}]},{"text":" command:","type":"text"}]},{"type":"codeBlock","attrs":{"language":"shell"},"content":[{"text":"Usage: vss-cli compute iso [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]...\n\n Available ISO images in both the VSS central store and your personal\n VSKEY-STOR space.\n\nOptions:\n --help Show this message and exit.\n\nCommands:\n personal Browse current user images\n public Browse public images","type":"text"}]},{"type":"heading","attrs":{"level":2},"content":[{"type":"inlineExtension","attrs":{"extensionType":"com.atlassian.confluence.macro.core","extensionKey":"anchor","parameters":{"macroParams":{"":{"value":"Public"},"legacyAnchorId":{"value":"ManageISOimageswiththevss-cli-Public"}},"macroMetadata":{"macroId":{"value":"8ef3caa5-4b2d-4b67-9026-b244878f8193"},"schemaVersion":{"value":"1"},"title":"Anchor"}}}},{"type":"inlineExtension","attrs":{"extensionType":"com.atlassian.confluence.macro.core","extensionKey":"anchor","parameters":{"macroParams":{"":{"value":"ManageISOimageswiththevss-cli-Public"},"legacyAnchorId":{"value":"ManageISOimageswiththevss-cli-ManageISOimageswiththevss-cli-Public"}},"macroMetadata":{"macroId":{"value":"26e3fddf-f4e9-4062-a290-773161c0638a"},"schemaVersion":{"value":"1"},"title":"Anchor"}}}},{"text":"Public","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"Our ISO image catalog is composed by more than 220 ISO images (and growing) stored within our virtual environment to make a faster VM-ISO interaction, where users can pick and choose the most common Linux distributions, Windows, etc. or any other Software like SQL Server.","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"Currently, users can only list and use public ISO images with ","type":"text"},{"text":"vss-cli compute iso public ls","type":"text","marks":[{"type":"code"}]},{"text":" and those can be filtered and sorted with including the proper options:","type":"text"}]},{"type":"codeBlock","attrs":{"language":"shell"},"content":[{"text":"Usage: vss-cli compute iso public ls [OPTIONS]\n\n List available ISO images in the VSS central store.\n\n Filter by name and sort desc. 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Please select one:\n\n => 501257e0-81f5-9c2a-84e5-e900212fef76 (1811D-ubuntu)\n 503081c3-6935-8086-683c-0a2b705d9efb (1811D-ubuntu-2)","type":"text"}]},{"type":"heading","attrs":{"level":2},"content":[{"type":"inlineExtension","attrs":{"extensionType":"com.atlassian.confluence.macro.core","extensionKey":"anchor","parameters":{"macroParams":{"":{"value":"Personal"},"legacyAnchorId":{"value":"ManageISOimageswiththevss-cli-Personal"}},"macroMetadata":{"macroId":{"value":"56d6a1d8-0d5c-4b34-907d-439d20c9bc13"},"schemaVersion":{"value":"1"},"title":"Anchor"}}}},{"type":"inlineExtension","attrs":{"extensionType":"com.atlassian.confluence.macro.core","extensionKey":"anchor","parameters":{"macroParams":{"":{"value":"ManageISOimageswiththevss-cli-Personal"},"legacyAnchorId":{"value":"ManageISOimageswiththevss-cli-ManageISOimageswiththevss-cli-Personal"}},"macroMetadata":{"macroId":{"value":"744d4069-6e73-4681-b56b-fd92da3cfda3"},"schemaVersion":{"value":"1"},"title":"Anchor"}}}},{"text":"Personal","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"User provided ISOs can be managed with the ","type":"text"},{"text":"vss-cli compute iso personal","type":"text","marks":[{"type":"code"}]},{"text":" command:","type":"text"}]},{"type":"codeBlock","attrs":{"language":"shell"},"content":[{"text":"Usage: vss-cli compute iso personal [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]...\n\n Available ISO images in your personal VSKEY-STOR space.\n\nOptions:\n --help Show this message and exit.\n\nCommands:\n ls list personal ISO images\n sync Sync personal ISO images","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"In order to list or load a user ISO into a VM, users should ","type":"text"},{"text":"upload","type":"text","marks":[{"type":"strong"}]},{"text":" the file to ","type":"text"},{"text":"VSKEY-STOR","type":"text","marks":[{"type":"link","attrs":{"href":"https://vskey-stor.eis.utoronto.ca"}}]},{"text":" and then execute a ","type":"text"},{"text":"sync","type":"text","marks":[{"type":"code"}]},{"text":" command to make the image file available in the ITS Private Cloud.","type":"text"}]},{"type":"panel","attrs":{"panelType":"info"},"content":[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"Assuming you have already uploaded a file, the command ","type":"text"},{"text":"vss-cli compute iso personal sync","type":"text","marks":[{"type":"code"}]},{"text":" should be executed.","type":"text"}]}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"Once you get a confirmation notification (email or message) ISO images should be visible through the CLI. 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Please select one:\n\n => 501257e0-81f5-9c2a-84e5-e900212fef76 (1811D-ubuntu)\n 503081c3-6935-8086-683c-0a2b705d9efb (1811D-ubuntu-2)\n\n Found 2 matches. Please select one:\n\n CentOS-7-x86_64-NetInstall-1804.iso\n => CentOS-7-x86_64-Minimal-1804.iso","type":"text"}]},{"type":"panel","attrs":{"panelType":"info"},"content":[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"Every time a new ISO image file has been added or removed from your ","type":"text"},{"text":"VSKEY-STOR","type":"text","marks":[{"type":"link","attrs":{"href":"https://vskey-stor.eis.utoronto.ca"}}]},{"text":" account, please run ","type":"text"},{"text":"vss-cli compute iso personal sync","type":"text","marks":[{"type":"code"}]},{"text":" to update your account records.","type":"text"}]}]}],"version":1}

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