Scenarios

After another tenant shares images with you, you will receive a message. You can choose to accept or reject all or some of the shared images.

You can receive the message only when you are in the same region where the tenant shares the images with you.

Prerequisites

• Another tenant has shared images with you.
• If the shared image is a full-ECS image, you need to create a server backup vault to store the full-ECS image and the backups of the full-ECS image before accepting the shared image. When creating a server backup vault, set Protection Type to Backup.

Procedure

1. Under Computing, click Image Management Service.

   The IMS console is displayed.

2. Click the Images Shared with Me tab.

   A message is displayed above the image list asking you whether to accept the shared images.

   • To accept all the shared images, click Accept All in the upper right corner.
   • To accept some images, select the images and click Accept.
   • To reject some images, select the images and click Reject.
3. (Optional) In the Accept Full-ECS Image dialog box, select a server backup vault with the Backup protection type and click OK.
   Figure 1 Accept Full-ECS Image
   

   This dialog box is displayed when the shared image is a full-ECS image.

   When accepting a full-ECS image, you must specify a vault for storing the CBR backups associated with the full-ECS image. The vault capacity must be no less than the total capacities of the system disk and data disk backups. To obtain the backup capacities, the tenant who shares the image needs to perform the following operations:

   1. Click the full-ECS image name. The image details page is displayed.
   2. Click the Backups tab and view the backup capacities.
      Figure 2 Backup details
      

      Figure 2 shows an example of system disk and data disk backup capacities. In this example, you must specify a vault with the capacity no less than 80 GB.

   

   For more information about server backup vaults, see What Is CBR?

Result

• Pending: If you do not accept or reject a shared image in time, the image is in the Pending state.

  A pending shared image is not displayed in the shared image list.

• Accepted: After an image is accepted, it is displayed in the shared image list. You can use the image to create ECSs.
• Rejected: After an image is rejected, it is not displayed in the shared image list. You can click Rejected Images to view the images you have rejected and accept them.

Follow-up Procedure

After accepting a system disk image or full-ECS image shared by another tenant, you can perform the following operations:

• Use the image to create one or more ECSs (select Shared Image during ECS creation). For details, see Purchasing an ECS with Customized Configurations.
• Use the image to change the OS of existing ECSs. For details, see Changing the OS.
  Figure 3 Changing the OS
  

After accepting a data disk image shared by another tenant, you can use the image to create EVS disks (locate the row that contains the image and click Create Data Disk in the Operation column).