VMCheckPoints

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

VMCheckPoints

Reads, creates, updates, or deletes virtual machine check points.

HTTP Verbs

GET POST PUT DELETE
Yes Yes Yes Yes

GET

Gets either the specified checkpoint, all checkpoints, or all checkpoints of a specific virtual machine.

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 checkpoint identifier
VMId Edm.Guid No The identifier of the virtual machine

POST

Creates a new checkpoint of the specified virtual machine

Entity Properties

Name Type Mandatory Description
StampId Edm.Guid Yes The identifier of the stamp to restrict the query to
VMId Edm.Guid Yes The identifier of the virtual machine to create a checkpoint of
Confirm Edm.Boolean No The value True must be provided in this property to create a new checkpoint.
Name Edm.String No The name of the checkpoint
Description Edm.String No The description of the checkpoint

PUT

Updates the specified checkpoint.

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 checkpoint to update
Name Edm.String No The name of the checkpoint
Description Edm.String No The description of the checkpoint
VMCheckPointAction Edm.String No The action that the checkpoint performs. The only value supported is Restore. If this property is set, the virtual machine is rolled back to this checkpoint.

DELETE

Deletes the specified checkpoint.

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 checkpoint to delete

See Also

VMM Collections Reference