A gold image is a static, non-bootable software image that exists on the hard drive of an enterprise partition platform and will, after the commissioning process, be the source of the software stack residing in a partition (or more formally, a partition image). A gold image is associated with one or more blueprints, providing the blueprints with the desired user software. For the commissioning to occur, a gold image must be associated with a blueprint. See Overview of Commissioning a Partition to know more about Commissioning a partition.