Generalized images can be useful in scenarios such as quickly scaling an environment. The images are generalized using Sysprep. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure supports bare metal and VM instances launched from both generalized and specialized custom Windows images.Ī generalized image has a generalized OS disk, cleaned of computer-specific information. Specialized images are point-in-time snapshots of the boot disk of a running instance, and are useful for creating backups of an instance. Generalized images are images that have been cleaned of instance-specific information. Windows supports two kinds of images: generalized and specialized. For information about the licensing requirements for Windows images, see Microsoft Licensing on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. For information about custom images, see Managing Custom Images. Instances you launch from your image include the customizations, configuration, and software installed when you created the image. You can create a Windows custom image of a bare metal or virtual machine (VM) instance's boot disk and use it to launch other instances.

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