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VirtualDiskDrives

 

Applies To: System Center 2016 - Service Provider Foundation, System Center Technical Preview

VirtualDiskDrives

Reads, creates, and deletes virtual disk drives that are associated with virtual machines or virtual machine templates.

HTTP Verbs

GET POST PUT DELETE
Yes Yes No Yes

GET

Gets all virtual hard disks that are associated with all virtual machines and virtual machine templates for a specific stamp.

If you supply the ID property, the virtual disk drive with that identifier is returned.

Entity Properties

Name Type Mandatory Description
StampId Edm.Guid Yes The identifier of the stamp to restrict the query to
ID Edm.Guid No The identifier of the virtual disk drive

POST

Creates a new virtual disk drive.

Entity Properties

Name Type Mandatory Description
StampId Edm.Guid Yes The identifier of the stamp to restrict the query to
Bus Edm.Int32 Yes Specifies the IDE bus to attach this virtual disk drive to.
IDE Edm.Boolean No Uses IDE as the bus type.
LUN Edm.Int32 Yes Specifies the logical unit number (LUN) for a virtual disk drive on an IDE or SCSI bus.
VirtualHardDiskId Edm.Guid Yes The identifier of the virtual disk that this virtual disk drive implements
SCSI Edm.Boolean No Uses SCSI as the bus type.
FileName Edm.String Yes The file name to rename the associated virtual hard disk when it is attached to this virtual disk drive
VMId Edm.Guid Yes The identifier of the virtual machine to add this virtual disk drive to
Path Edm.String No The path on the host to store the associated virtual hard disk

Examples:

F:\
Local path

\\Library\Templates
UNC path

\\?\Volume{4703c1ea-8ae7-11db-b473-00123f7603e3}\
Volume GUID path

[storage1]\MyVMwareFolderForVMs\MyVM.vmx
VMware ESX path

Local storage[99b6212f-b63d-c676-25f9-d6c460992de7]
Citrix XenServer path

DELETE

Deletes a virtual disk drive.

Entity Properties

Name Type Mandatory Description
StampId Edm.Guid Yes The identifier of the stamp to restrict the query to
ID Edm.Guid Yes The identifier of the virtual disk drive to delete

See Also

VMM Collections Reference