Images for Compute Cloud@Customer Instances

On Compute Cloud@Customer, an image is a template of a virtual hard drive. The image provides the OS and other software for a compute instance. You specify an image to use when you create a compute instance.

These are the types of images you can use to create a compute instance:

• Platform images: Compute Cloud@Customer includes Oracle Linux and Oracle Solaris images. These included images are available in every compartment of every tenancy. These images don't need to be downloaded or imported to access them to create an instance. See Compute Cloud@Customer Platform Images.

• Custom images: You can create a custom image of a compute instance's boot disk and use it to create other compute instances. Instances you create from your image include the customizations, configuration, and software installed when you created the image. See Managing Custom Images.

• Marketplace images: You can request access to the following Marketplace images that are tested and approved for use on Compute Cloud@Customer:

  • Oracle Weblogic Server Enterprise Edition UCM

    This image provides binaries of the Oracle WebLogic Server and the Java Development Toolkit along with the entitlement to create Oracle WebLogic Server domains in your Compute Cloud@Customer instances.

  • Oracle WebLogic Suite UCM

    Quickly create instances that contain the key components needed to develop, test, and deploy Java EE applications in Oracle WebLogic Server or Oracle Forms applications.

  For more information, see Marketplace Images.

• Bring your own image (BYOI): You can bring your own versions of images to the cloud as long as the underlying hardware supports it. See Bring Your Own Image (BYOI).

For a list of Oracle tested OSs, see Guest Operating Systems.