Create Affinity Group
Updated: June 7, 2012
The Create Affinity Group operation creates a new affinity group for the specified subscription.
Request
The Create Affinity Group request may be specified as follows. Replace <subscription-id> with your subscription ID:
| Method | Request URI | HTTP Version |
|---|---|---|
|
POST |
|
HTTP/1.1 |
URI Parameters
None.
Request Headers
The following table describes required and optional request headers.
| Request Header | Description |
|---|---|
|
content_type |
Required. Set this header to application/xml. |
|
x-ms-version |
Required. Specifies the version of the operation to use for this request. This header should be set to 2011-02-25 or later. For more information about versioning headers, see Service Management Versioning. |
Request Body
The format of the request body is as follows:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <CreateAffinityGroup xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/windowsazure"> <Name>affinity-group-name</Name> <Label>base64-encoded-affinity-group-label</Label> <Description>affinity-group-description</Description> <Location>location</Location> </CreateAffinityGroup>
The following table describes the key elements of the request body:
| Element Name | Description |
|---|---|
|
Name |
Required. A name for the affinity group that is unique to the subscription. |
|
Label |
Required. A base-64 encoded name for the affinity group. The name can be up to 100 characters in length. |
|
Description |
Optional. A description for the affinity group. The description can be up to 1024 characters in length. |
|
Location |
Required. The data center location where the affinity group will be created. To list available locations, use the List Locations operation. |
Response
The response includes an HTTP status code, a set of response headers, and a response body.
Status Code
A successful operation returns status code 201 (Created).
For information about status codes, see Service Management Status and Error Codes.
Response Headers
The response for this operation includes the following headers. The response may also include additional standard HTTP headers. All standard headers conform to the HTTP/1.1 protocol specification.
| Response Header | Description |
|---|---|
|
x-ms-request-id |
A value that uniquely identifies a request made against the management service. |
Response Body
None.
Authorization
Any management certificate associated with the subscription specified by <subscription-id> can be used to authenticate this operation. For additional details, see Authenticating Service Management Requests.
Remarks
If the value of x-ms-version is 2012-03-01 or later, an affinity group cannot be created in the Anywhere US, Anywhere Europe, or Anywhere Asia regions.