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title: "Uploading the NIOS Virtual Image on Nutanix AHV"
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<span style="color: #000000">Download the .qcow2 file for the </span><span style="color: #000000">**vNIOS for Nutanix**</span><span style="color: #000000"> offering by completing the following steps:</span>

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To upload the NIOS virtual image on Nutanix AHV from Prism web console, complete the following steps:

2. <span style="color: #000000">Log in to the Nutanix Web Console (also called the Prism web console).</span>
3. <span style="color: #000000">Navigate to </span><span style="color: #000000">**Home**</span><span style="color: #000000"> -> </span><span style="color: #000000">**Settings**</span><span style="color: #000000"> -> </span><span style="color: #000000">**Image Configuration**</span><span style="color: #000000">.</span>
4. <span style="color: #000000">Click </span><span style="color: #000000">**Upload Image**</span><span style="color: #000000">.</span>
5. <span style="color: #000000">On the </span><span style="color: #000000">*Create Image*</span><span style="color: #000000"> screen, complete the following details:</span>
  - <span style="color: #000000">**Name**</span><span style="color: #000000">: Enter a name for the image.</span>
  - <span style="color: #000000">**Annotation**</span><span style="color: #000000">: Enter a description for the image.</span>
  - <span style="color: #000000">**Image Type**</span><span style="color: #000000">: Select </span><span style="color: #000000">**Disk**</span><span style="color: #000000">.</span>
  - <span style="color: #000000">**Storage Container**</span><span style="color: #000000">: Select a storage container.</span>
  - <span style="color: #000000">**Image Source**</span><span style="color: #000000">: Select </span><span style="color: #000000">**Upload a file**</span><span style="color: #000000">. Then browse to the respective path and select the </span><span style="color: #000000">**qcow2**</span><span style="color: #000000"> file that you downloaded.</span>
6. <span style="color: #000000">Click </span><span style="color: #000000">**Save**</span><span style="color: #000000">.</span>  
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