Best workflow for publishing a large aerial image.

GregCarlino2

What is the most efficient way to publish a very large aerial photo to an Enterprise Portal? 

I am currently trying to publish a 60+GB tif. aerial image as a Map Image (as I do not yet have an Image Server set up).  I would ideally like to publish a map cache for it, but it looks like the Create Map Server Cache tool requires an existing Map Service as a parameter in order to create the cache...   so I'd have to have it published as a Map Image as a prerequisite to building the cache.  So far, publishing the Map Image just keeps failing about 4 hours into the process.  This extremely long run-time is making it practically impossible to troubleshoot.

Is there a better workflow to accomplish this?

Thanks,

Greg

Specs:

Enterprise 10.9.1 - with a single ArcServer instance (no Image Server).

ArcGIS Pro 3.0

61GB tif aerial image.

 

TonyContreras_Frisco_TX

Creating the Map service is your first step, then set up the cache and generate the tiles. When publishing your service, make sure the setting to copy the data to the server is not enabled. This will require setting up the image file location as a Data Store on the Server Site and making sure that the account running ArcGIS Server has read access to the directory.