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Managing ImagesΒΆ

With Nova, you can manage images either using the built-in object store or using Glance, a related OpenStack project. Glance is a server that provides the following services:

  • Ability to store and retrieve virtual machine images
  • Ability to store and retrieve metadata about these virtual machine images

Refer to http://glance.openstack.org for additional details.