Description

Store the VM of the specified server ID as an image.
（Snapshot）

The VM is needed to be stopped.

Request URL 

Compute API v2.0

POST /v2/{tenant_id}​/servers/​{server_id}​/action

Request Paramters

Parameter Value Style Description
X-Auth-Token User Token header
tenant_id URI
server_id Server ID URI
name (Required) Snapshot Name plain
createImage plain

Request Json 

{
  "createImage": {
    "name": "example_snap01"
  }
}

Normal response codes

202 Accepted

Example 

curl -i -X POST \
-H "Accept: application/json" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "X-Auth-Token: 35941e7df872405d84e5b026dba8323c" \
-d '{"createImage": {"name": "example_snap01"}}' \
https://compute.tyo1.cloud.z.com/v2/1864e71d2deb46f6b47526b69c65a45d/servers/e25b3611-96df-4514-a54b-7729aec48dc1/action
HTTP/1.1 202 Accepted
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2015 05:12:43 GMT
Server: Apache
Content-Length: 0
Content-Type: application/json