Create a virtual server
Creates a virtual server on the storage system. The virtual server is assigned an IP address when you create the server. It uses the Ethernet link aggregation port available on the physical cluster node. The operation returns a URI you can access to retrieve a virtual server immediately after the operation returns.
HTTP request syntax (URI)
POST <base_URI>/v7/storage/virtual-servers
Parameters
| Name | Type | Required | Values | Description |
| name | BODY | Y | string | Name (only alphanumeric and "-") for the virtual server to be created. |
| clusterNodeId | BODY | Y | number | ID of the cluster node in which to create the virtual server. |
| ipAddress | BODY | Y | string | Either IPv4 or IPv6 address of the virtual server. |
| netmask | BODY | Y | string | Netmask must be of the form x.x.x.x for an IPv4 address or specify a prefix length for an IPv6 address. |
| ethernetLinkAggregation | BODY | Y | string | Name of the Ethernet link aggregation for the virtual server. |
Return codes
| Code | Data | Description |
| 201 | virtualServer | Virtual server object successfully created. |
| 400 | No Data | Missing or invalid request contents. |
| 404 | Error Message | Requested resource not found. |
| 500 | Error message | Error associated with the storage system. |
| 501 | No Data | Server has not implemented the request operation on the resource. |
Any HTTP status code other than 201 indicates that the API did not complete successfully.
Request example
curl -vk -H "X-Api-Key: zrxvSDAv9x.RIP4gkmKarG3beF.or.4Tc2im7oeqYN88C9XPGHxbXC" https://172.17.11.11:8444/v7/storage/virtual-servers –d ‘{"name":"TestEVS", "clusterNodeId":1, "ipAddress":"172.17.37.63", "netmask":"255.255.255.0", "ethernetLinkAggregation":"ag1"}’ -X POST
Response example
HTTP/1.1 201 OK
{
"virtualServer" : {
"UUID" : "b912ecdc-77df-11d0-958c-49e1bb864b23",
"virtualServerId" : 7,
"ipAddresses" : [ "172.17.37.63" ],
"isEnabled" : true,
"name" : "TestEVS",
"objectId" : "373a3a3a4f49445f24232140255f56",
"status" : "ONLINE",
"type" : "File services",
}
"uri" : "https://172.17.11.11:8444/v7/storage/virtual-servers/373a3a3a4f49445f24232140255f56"
}