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Elastic High Performance Computing:ListAvailableImages

Last Updated:Jan 14, 2026

Queries images that are available for Elastic High Performance Computing (E-HPC) clusters.

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Authorization information

The following table shows the authorization information corresponding to the API. The authorization information can be used in the Action policy element to grant a RAM user or RAM role the permissions to call this API operation. Description:

  • Operation: the value that you can use in the Action element to specify the operation on a resource.
  • Access level: the access level of each operation. The levels are read, write, and list.
  • Resource type: the type of the resource on which you can authorize the RAM user or the RAM role to perform the operation. Take note of the following items:
    • For mandatory resource types, indicate with a prefix of * .
    • If the permissions cannot be granted at the resource level, All Resources is used in the Resource type column of the operation.
  • Condition Key: the condition key that is defined by the cloud service.
  • Associated operation: other operations that the RAM user or the RAM role must have permissions to perform to complete the operation. To complete the operation, the RAM user or the RAM role must have the permissions to perform the associated operations.
OperationAccess levelResource typeCondition keyAssociated operation
ehpc:ListAvailableImagesget
*All Resources
*
    none
none

Request parameters

ParameterTypeRequiredDescriptionExample
ImageOwnerAliasstringNo

The image source. Valid values:

  • system: system image.
  • self: custom image.
  • others: shared image.
self
InstanceTypestringNo

The instance type.

Note By default, if you do not specify an instance type, the list of images that are supported by all instance types are queried. For more information, see Instance families.
ecs.c7.large
IsPublicbooleanNo

Specifies whether to return published community images. Valid values:

  • true: returns published community images. If you set the value of this parameter to true, the ImageOwnerAlias parameter must be set to others.
  • false: returns non-community images. The value of the ImageOwnerAlias parameter prevails.

Default value: false.

true
HPCInterConnectstringNo

The network type of the images that you want to query.

vpc
EnableHTbooleanNo

Specifies whether to return images in which hyper-threading is enabled.

true
SchedulerobjectNo

The scheduler information about the images that you want to query.

TypestringNo

The scheduler type.

SLURM
VersionstringNo

The scheduler version.

22.05.8
DirectoryServiceobjectNo

The information about the domain account service.

TypestringNo

The type of the domain account.

NIS
VersionstringNo

The version of the domain account service.

1.0
PageNumberintegerNo

The page number of the page to return.

1
PageSizeintegerNo

The number of entries per page. Valid values: 1 to 50. Default value: 10.

1

Response parameters

ParameterTypeDescriptionExample
object

The response parameters.

RequestIdstring

The request ID.

04F0F334-1335-436C-A1D7-6C044FE73368
TotalCountstring

The total number of entries returned.

1
PageSizestring

The number of entries per page.

20
PageNumberstring

The page number of the returned page.

  • Pages start from page 1.
  • Default value: 1.
1
Successboolean

Indicates whether the request was successful. Valid values:

  • true: The request was successful.
  • false: The request failed.
true
Imagesarray<object>

The information about the images.

Imageobject

The information about the image.

ImageIdstring

The image ID.

centos_7_06_64_20G_alibase_2019071****
OSNameEnstring

The OS name in English.

CentOS 7.9 64 bit
ImageOwnerAliasstring

The image source. Valid values:

  • system: system image.
  • self: custom image.
  • others: shared image.
self
Descriptionstring

The image description.

ExampleDescription
Sizestring

The image size. Unit: GiB

40
Platformstring

The OS. Valid values:

  • CentOS
  • windows
windows
OSNamestring

The OS name in Chinese.

Architecturestring

The OS architecture of the image. Valid values:

  • x86_64
  • arm64
x86_64
BootModestring

The boot mode of the image. Valid values:

  • BIOS: Basic Input/Output System (BIOS).
  • UEFI: Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI).
Note When you change the OS boot mode of an instance, you must make sure that the boot mode matches the boot mode of the associated image. Otherwise, the instance fails to be booted.
BIOS
ImageNamestring

The image name.

CHESS5V5.0.27

Examples

Sample success responses

JSONformat

{
  "RequestId": "04F0F334-1335-436C-A1D7-6C044FE73368",
  "TotalCount": 1,
  "PageSize": 20,
  "PageNumber": 1,
  "Success": true,
  "Images": [
    {
      "ImageId": "centos_7_06_64_20G_alibase_2019071****",
      "OSNameEn": "CentOS  7.9 64 bit",
      "ImageOwnerAlias": "self",
      "Description": "ExampleDescription",
      "Size": 40,
      "Platform": "windows",
      "OSName": "",
      "Architecture": "x86_64",
      "BootMode": "BIOS",
      "ImageName": "CHESS5V5.0.27"
    }
  ]
}

Error codes

HTTP status codeError codeError messageDescription
400InvalidParamsThe specified parameter %s is invalid.The specified parameter %s is invalid.
500UnknownErrorAn unknown error occurred.An unknown error occurred.
503ServiceUnavailableThe request has failed due to a temporary failure of the serverThe request has failed due to a temporary failure of the server.

For a list of error codes, visit the Service error codes.

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