Creating EVS Disks

Function

This API is used to create one or multiple EVS disks.

URI

• URI format

  POST /v2/{project_id}/cloudvolumes

• Parameter description

  Parameter	Mandatory	Description
  project_id	Yes	The project ID. For details about how to obtain the project ID, see Obtaining a Project ID.

Request

• Request parameters

  Parameter	Type	Mandatory	Description
  volume	Object	Yes	The information of the disk to be created. For details, see Parameters in the volume field.

• Parameters in the volume field

  Parameter	Type	Mandatory	Description
  backup_id	String	No	The backup ID. This parameter is mandatory when you create the disk from a backup. NOTE: For how to obtain the backup ID, see Querying All Backups in the Cloud Backup and Recovery API Reference.
  availability_zone	String	Yes	The AZ where you want to create the disk. If the specified AZ does not exist, the disk will fail to be created. NOTE: For details about how to obtain the AZ, see Querying All AZs.
  description	String	No	The disk description, which can contain a maximum of 255 bytes.
  size	Integer	Yes	The disk size, in GB. The value can be as follows: System disk: 1 GB to 1024 GB Data disk: 10 GB to 32768 GB This parameter is mandatory when you create an empty disk. You can specify the parameter value as required within the value range. This parameter is mandatory when you create the disk from a snapshot. Ensure that the disk size is greater than or equal to the snapshot size. This parameter is mandatory when you create the disk from an image. Ensure that the disk size is greater than or equal to the minimum disk capacity required by min_disk in the image attributes. This parameter is optional when you create the disk from a backup. If this parameter is not specified, the disk size is equal to the backup size. NOTE: If the specified value is a decimal, the number part of the value will be used.
  name	String	No	The disk name. If you create disks one by one, the name value is the disk name, which can contain a maximum of 255 characters. If you create multiple disks (the count value greater than 1), the system will automatically add a hyphen followed by a four-digit incremental number, such as -0000, to the end of each disk name. For example, the disk names can be volume-0001 and volume-0002. The value can contain a maximum of 250 bytes.
  snapshot_id	String	No	The snapshot ID. If this parameter is specified, the disk will be created from a snapshot.
  imageRef	String	No	The image ID. If this parameter is specified, the disk will be created from an image. NOTE: For how to obtain the image ID, see Querying Images in the Image Management Service API Reference.
  volume_type	String	Yes	The disk type. The value can be SSD or SAS. SSD: the ultra-high I/O type SAS: the high I/O type NOTE: When the disk is created from a snapshot, the disk type of the new disk will be consistent with that of the snapshot's source disk. For details about disk types, see Disk Types and Performance in the Elastic Volume Service User Guide.
  count	Integer	No	The number of disks to be created in a batch. If this parameter is not specified, only one disk will be created. You can create a maximum of 100 disks in a batch. If disks are created from backups, batch creation is not supported, and this parameter must be set to 1. NOTE: If the specified value is a decimal, the number part of the value will be used.
  shareable	String	No	Whether the disk is shareable. The value can be true (shared disk) or false (common disk). NOTE: This field is no longer used. Use multiattach.
  metadata	Map<String,String>	No	The metadata of the disk to be created. Optional parameters: full_clone: If the disk is created from a snapshot and linked cloning needs to be used, set this parameter to 0. hw:passthrough: If this parameter is set to true, the disk device type will be SCSI, which allows ECS OSs to directly access underlying storage media. SCSI reservation commands are supported. If this parameter is set to false, the disk device type will be VBD, which supports only simple SCSI read/write commands. If this parameter is not specified, the disk device type will be VBD.
  multiattach	Boolean	No	Whether the disk is shareable. The default value is false. true: indicates a shared disk. false: indicates a non-shared disk.

  

  Specifying either two of the backup_id, snapshot_id, and imageRef fields is not supported.

• Example request

  {
      "volume": {
          "backup_id": null, 
          "count": 1, 
          "availability_zone": "az-dc-1", 
          "description": "test_volume_1", 
          "size": 120, 
          "name": "test_volume_1", 
          "volume_type": "SSD", 
          "metadata": {
          }
      }
  }

Response

• Response parameters

  Parameter	Type	Description
  job_id	String	The task ID. NOTE:
  error	Object	The error message returned if an error occurs. For details, see Parameters in the error field.

• Parameters in the error field

  Parameter	Type	Description
  message	String	The error message returned if an error occurs.
  code	String	The error code returned if an error occurs. For details about the error code, see Error Codes.

• Example response

  {
      "job_id": "70a599e0-31e7-49b7-b260-868f441e862b"
  }

  or

  {
      "error": {
          "message": "XXXX", 
          "code": "XXX"
      }
  }

Status Codes

• Normal

  200

Error Codes

For details, see Error Codes.