Creating an EVS Disk
Scenarios
This topic describes how to create an EVS disk by calling APIs. For details about how to call APIs, see Calling APIs.
In the following example, APIs are called to create a disk from a snapshot.
Prerequisites
You have planned the region where you want to create the disk and have obtained the endpoint required for calling the API. For details, see Before You Start.
Procedure
- Query the snapshots and obtain information of the snapshot you desire.
API: Querying Details About EVS Snapshots
- Example request
https://{endpoint}/v2/ba546eb46e7247c9aadb566ed7a1d31f/snapshots/detail
- Example response{"snapshots": [{"status": "available","description": null,"updated_at": "2019-06-18T12:47:38.234689","volume_id": "037cf89a-8cea-4d63-ac57-345c0ffccfc2","id": "0b126d3b-f2af-404d-8d39-a42fce70065a","size": 40,"os-extended-snapshot-attributes:progress": "100%","name": "snapshot-test","os-extended-snapshot-attributes:project_id": "ba546eb46e7247c9aadb566ed7a1d31f","created_at": "2019-06-18T12:47:33.700070","metadata": {}}]}
In the response, id indicates the snapshot ID.
- Example request
- Create a disk from the snapshot.
API: Creating EVS Disks
- Example request
POST https://{endpoint}/v2/ba546eb46e7247c9aadb566ed7a1d31f/cloudvolumes
{"volume": {"count": 1,"availability_zone": "az-dc-1","description": "test_volume_1","size": 120,"snapshot_id": "0b126d3b-f2af-404d-8d39-a42fce70065a","name": "test_volume_1","volume_type": "SAS"}} - Example response{"job_id": "ff8080816b512df7016b6ab8982b496b"}
- Example request
Parent topic: Getting Started
- Scenarios
- Prerequisites
- Procedure