SCP supports public, private, and network function virtualization (NFV) images. Public images are uploaded by platform administrators and used by platform administrators, tenants, and tenant users. Private images are uploaded by tenants and used by tenants and tenant users. Platform administrators can delete private images. NFV images are uploaded by administrators and used by administrators and tenants.
Public and private images are ISO or built-in images (HCI images). ISO images indicate that the image files are in the .iso format, and built-in images are converted from VMs.
Precautions
Cross-version image distribution is supported for SCP 6.9.0 and later versions. With the service pack for cross-image distribution installed, you can distribute public, private, network device, and advanced service images to resource pools of different cluster versions. The supported versions are as follows.
Source HCI Cluster Version
Destination HCI Cluster Version
6.0.0 R5
6.0.0 R5, 6.3.0 (R1 and R2), and 6.9.0
6.2.0
6.2.0, 6.3.0 (R1 and R2), and 6.9.0
6.3.0 (R1 and R2)
6.0.0 R5, 6.2.0, 6.3.0 (R1 and R2), 6.7.0 (R1, R2, and R3), 6.8.0, and 6.9.0
6.7.0 (R1, R2, and R3)
6.3.0 (R1 and R2), 6.7.0 (R1, R2, and R3), and 6.9.0
6.8.0
6.3.0 (R1 and R2), 6.8.0, and 6.9.0
6.9.0
6.0.0 R5, 6.2.0, 6.3.0 (R1 and R2), 6.7.0 (R1, R2, and R3), 6.8.0, and 6.9.0
Cross-version image distribution has the following restrictions:
(1)Distribution to HCI 6.9.0 or earlier versions is not supported for VMs with 4K or 8K resolution enabled.
(2)Distribution to HCI 6.8.0 or earlier versions is not supported for multi-disk VM templates.
(3)Distribution to HCI 6.8.0 or earlier versions is not supported for VMs with more than one graphics card.
(4)Distribution to HCI 6.8.0 or earlier versions is not supported for VMs whose OS is Linux Kernel 4.X, Linux Kernel 4.X 64-bit, Linux Kernel 5.X 64-bit, Windows 11 64-bit, or Windows 2022 64-bit.
(5)Distribution to HCI 6.8.0 or earlier versions is not supported for VMs whose description has more than 100 characters.
(6)Distribution to HCI 6.8.0 or earlier versions is not supported for VDI VMs.
(7)Distribution to HCI 6.8.0 or earlier versions is not supported for VMs that use the Q35-based motherboard.
(8)Distribution to HCI 6.0.0 R5 or 6.0.0 R5 (EN) is not supported for HCI VMs that use the AMD or Hygon CPU.
(9)Distribution to HCI 6.8.0 or earlier versions is not supported for VMs that use the VirtIO NIC without vmTools installed.
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