Elastic Desktop Service:Delete a custom image

Precautions

• The image that you want to delete must be a custom image. You cannot delete a system, shared, or community image.

• The image that you want to delete must be in the Available state. You cannot delete a custom image that is in another state, such as Creating or Copying.

• The image that you want to delete must not be a shared image. Before you delete a custom image, make sure that the image is not shared to another Alibaba Cloud account. For more information, see Share or unshare a custom image.

• The image that you want to delete must not be used by a cloud computer pool. If the image that you want to delete is being used by a cloud computer pool, use another image to replace the image and then delete the image. For more information, see Change the image of a cloud computer or cloud computer pool.

Impacts of image deletion

Before you delete a custom image, make sure that you understand the impacts of image deletion.

• After you delete a custom image, the cloud computers created from the image remain unaffected and can be used as expected.

• If the custom image that you want to delete is being used in a cloud computer template, the template is also deleted when you delete the custom image.

• Deleting a custom image may impact cloud computers that are currently using it in the following ways:

  • If you delete the custom image, the scheduled reset tasks for the cloud computers will not work as expected.

  • If no scheduled reset task is configured for the cloud computers, you cannot create scheduled reset tasks by using the custom image after you delete the custom image.