VirtualDVDDrive [SPFSDK][VMMREF]

 

Applies To: Windows Azure Pack

The VirtualDVDDrive entity represents a virtual DVD drive on a virtual machine, a virtual machine template, or a hardware profile used in Virtual Machine Manager (VMM).

Inheritance Hierarchy

VMM
  VirtualDVDDrive

Entity Properties

For more information about how the properties of an entity interact with HTTP operations, see Entity Basics.

Name	Create (POST)	Read (GET)	Update (PUT)	Delete (DELETE)	Type	Nullable	Description
ID	-	Optional	Required	Required	Edm.Guid	False	Key Property The identifier of the entity.
StampId	Required	Optional	Required	Required	Edm.Guid	False	Key Property The identifier of the stamp that restricts the query.
Accessibility	-	Optional	-	-	Edm.String	True	TBD
AddedTime	-	Optional	-	-	Edm.DateTime	True	When the entity was added.
Bus	Required	Optional	Optional	-	Edm.Byte	True	The IDE or SCSI bus to which to attach the drive.
BusType	-	Optional	-	-	Edm.String	True	The type of Bus. IDE SCSI
ChildObjectIDs	-	Optional	-	-	Collection(Edm.Guid)	False	Not applicable.
Connection	-	Optional	-	-	Edm.String	True	The type of media used by the drive. None ISOImage HostDrive
Description	-	Optional	-	-	Edm.String	True	Describes the Virtual Disk Drive.
Enabled	-	Optional	-	-	Edm.Boolean	True	Not applicable.
HostDrive	-	Optional	-	-	Edm.String	True	The drive on the Host that contains the virtual disk drive file.
ISOId	Optional	Optional	Optional	-	Edm.Guid	True	The identifier of the ISO disk image.
ISOLinked	Optional	Optional	Optional	-	Edm.Boolean	True	True if the ISO file is linked instead of copied.
JobGroupId	-	Optional	-	-	Edm.Guid	True	The identifier for a series of commands that will run as a set.
LUN	Required	Optional	Optional	-	Edm.Byte	True	The logical unit number.
ModifiedTime	-	Optional	-	-	Edm.DateTime	True	When the entity was last modified.
Name	-	Optional	-	-	Edm.String	True	The name of the virtual DVD drive.
Size	-	Optional	-	-	Edm.Int64	True	The size of the virtual DVD drive in megabytes (MB).
TemplateId	-	Optional	-	-	Edm.Guid	True	The identifier of the VM template associated with this drive.
VMId	Required	-	Optional	-	Edm.Guid	True	The identifier of the virtual machine associated with this drive. When a virtual DVD drive is updated, this property helps identify the virtual DVD drive as belonging to this virtual machine. This property must always match the virtual machine the DVD drive is attached to.

Relationships

For more information about how the relationships of an entity are used, see Entity Basics.

Name	Relationship Type	From Property	To Entity	To Property
ISO	One or None	Not specified	ISO [SPFSDK][VMMREF]	Not specified

OData Operations

None

Examples

• Example: Create a new virtual DVD drive

• Example: Delete an existing VirtualDVDDrive by identifier

• Example: Mount an ISO on a Virtual DVD Drive

• Example: Get a specific VirtualDVDDrive object

• Example: Get all VirtualDVDDrive objects

• Example: Get all VirtualDVDDrive objects of a virtual machine

• Example: Get all VirtualDVDDrives that use a specific ISO

See Also

Entities [SPFSDK][VMMREF]
VirtualDVDDrives Collection [SPFSDK][VMMREF]