Operations at vhd/

This page describes the service operations at this endpoint.

URI	Method	Description
vhd/{id}/baseFileName	GET	Gets VHD base file name.
vhd/{id}/beginBatch/{target}	POST	Begins batch.
vhd/{id}/close	GET	Closes VHD.
vhd/{id}/delete/{target}	POST	Deletes VHD snapshot or base file.
vhd/{id}/endBatch	POST	Ends batch.
vhd/{id}/hasSnapshot	GET	Verifies VHD has snapshot.
vhd/{id}/read/{target}/{sectorOffset}/{sectorLength}	POST	Reads raw data from VHD.
vhd/{id}/sectorSize	GET	Gets sector size of the VHD.
vhd/{id}/snapshotFileName	GET	Gets VHD snapshot file name.
vhd/{id}/takeSnapshot	GET	Takes VHD snapshot.
vhd/{id}/totalSectorCapacity	GET	Gets VHD capacity.
vhd/{id}/translateSectorOffsetToChsTuple?sectorOffset={sectorOffset}	GET	Translates sector offset to chs tuple.
vhd/{id}/write/{target}	POST	Writes blocks of raw data to VHD.
vhd/{id}/write/{target}/{sectorOffset}/{sectorLength}	POST	Writes raw data to VHD.
vhd/createVhd?path={path}&bytesCapacity={bytesCapacity}&bytesPerSector={bytesPerSector}&containsBootSystemVolume={containsBootSystemVolume}&preallocate={preallocate}	PUT	Creates VHD.
vhd/getDiskFromTask/{taskId}	GET	Retrieves a disk identifier based on the identifier of the task that created the disk. If disk is not yet created, returns empty identifier
vhd/openVhd?path={path}	PUT	Opens VHD.
vhd/readCustomMetadata	POST	Reads a user-defined custom metadata string.
vhd/startCreateVhd?path={path}&bytesCapacity={bytesCapacity}&bytesPerSector={bytesPerSector}&containsBootSystemVolume={containsBootSystemVolume}&preallocate={preallocate}	PUT	Starts a task which creates a VHD. Returns the task identifier, not the disk identifier. Use GetVirtualDiskFromTask() method to get the actual created disk
vhd/writeCustomMetadata?value={value}	POST	Writes a user-defined custom metadata string.