Creating OS Snapshots

After configuring a cluster, you may wish to save its data for later use on other clusters. You can create a snapshot of the cluster's root disk, which saves its operating system, data, and any applications you've installed. When you start a new cluster and select your snapshot as the image, the saved data will appear on the cluster.

OS snapshots are different from disk snapshots in that disk snapshots do not contain an operating system. This means that disk snapshots cannot be used as your root disk.

Creating a Snapshot

After starting a cluster, navigate to its Details page. In Attached Storages, click the snapshot icon.

Name your snapshot. Please note that the name must:

• begin with a letter.
• be between 3 and 36 characters.
• use only numbers, hyphens, and lowercase letters. Spaces are not accepted.

Click Create.

The snapshot will begin the provisioning process, and you'll be redirected to the Snapshots page.

Click provisioning if you'd like to see the steps of the process.

When the snapshot has been created, its status will change to provisioned.

Sharing a Snapshot

If you share a snapshot with a group in your organization, users in that group will be able to restore their own disks' settings from your snapshot. This is useful if, for example, you and another group's users are conducting similar types of work.

On the Snapshots page, hover over the snapshot's row and click the Manage access icon.

On the next page, select the group(s) you want to share the snapshot with. You'll see the message Permission updated successfully.

Deleting a Snapshot

On the Snapshots page, open the row's ⋯ menu and click Delete snapshot.

A dialog box will appear with the message Are you sure you want to delete this snapshot?

Click Delete.

A notification will appear with the message Snapshot is waiting to be destroyed. This may take a few minutes.

When this process is finished, the snapshot's Status will display as deleted for the next hour.