Get Affinity Group Properties

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08/03/2016

The Get Affinity Group Properties operation returns the system properties that are associated with the specified affinity group.

Request

The Get Affinity Group Properties request may be specified as follows. Replace <subscription-id> with the subscription ID, and <affinity-group-name> with the name of the affinity group.

Method	Request URI
GET	https://management.core.windows.net/<subscription-id>/affinitygroups/<affinity-group-name>

URI Parameters

None.

Request Headers

The following table describes the request headers.

Request Header	Description
x-ms-version	Required. Specifies the version of the operation to use for this request. This header should be set to 2009-10-01 or higher.

Request Body

None.

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 200 (OK).

Response Headers

The response for this operation includes the following headers. The response may also include additional standard HTTP headers.

Response Header	Description
x-ms-request-id	A value that uniquely identifies a request made against the management service.

Response Body

The format of the response body is as follows:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<AffinityGroup xmlns="https://schemas.microsoft.com/windowsazure">
  <Name>name-of-affinity-group</Name>
  <Label>base64-encoded-label</Label>
  <Description>description</Description>
  <Location>location</Location>  
  <HostedServices>
    <HostedService>
      <Url>hosted-service-address</Url>
      <ServiceName>hosted-service-name</ServiceName>
    </HostedService>
  </HostedServices>
  <StorageServices>
    <StorageService>
      <Url>storage-account-address</Url>
      <ServiceName>storage-account-name</ServiceName>
    </StorageService>
  </StorageServices>
  <Capabilities>
    <Capability>affinity-group-capability</Capability>
  </Capabilities>
  <CreatedTime>creation-time-of-affinity-group</CreatedTime>
</AffinityGroup>

The following table describes the elements of the response body.

Element name	Description
Name	Specifies the user name of the affinity group.
Label	Specifies the base-64-encloded identifier of the affinity group.
Description	Specifies the description of this affinity group.
Location	Specifies the location of the data center in which the affinity group is associated.
Url	The URL of the cloud service that is associated with the affinity group.
ServiceName	The name of the cloud service that is associated with the affinity group.
Url	The URL of the storage account that is associated with the affinity group.
ServiceName	The name of the storage account that is associated with the affinity group.
Capability	Specifies the capabilities that of the affinity group. Possible values are: PersistentVMRole HighMemory The capabilities of an affinity group are typically derived from its location. An affinity group may show a reduced set of capabilities if the specific set of resources assigned to support the affinity group do not support a capability, for example high-memory Virtual Machines. The PersistentVMRole capability enables an affinity group to support Virtual Machines. The HighMemory capability enables the affinity group to support Virtual Machines that use high memory relative to the number of CPUs.
CreatedTime	Specifies in UTC format when the affinity group was created. The CreatedTime element is only available using version 2014-01-01 or higher.

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