VMCheckPoint

 

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

VMCheckpoint

Gets, creates, updates, or deletes checkpoints of virtual machines in Virtual Machine Manager (VMM).

HTTP Verbs

GET POST PUT DELETE
Yes Yes Yes Yes

GET

Gets the specified checkpoint.

Entity Properties

Name Type Mandatory Description
StampId Edm.Guid Yes The identifier of the stamp that restricts the query.
ID Edm.Guid No The identifier of the checkpoint to retrieve.
VMId Edm.Guid No The identifier of the virtual machine that contains the checkpoint.

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 that restricts the query.
VMId Edm.Guid Yes The identifier of the virtual machine to create a checkpoint of.
Confirm Edm.Boolean No You must set this value to True 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 that restricts the query.
ID Edm.Guid No The identifier of the checkpoint to update.
Description Edm.String No The description of the checkpoint.
Name Edm.String No The name 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 that restricts the query.
ID Edm.Guid No The identifier of the checkpoint to delete.

See Also

VMM Collections Reference R2