Create Affinity Group

Article
08/03/2016

The Create Affinity Group operation creates a new affinity group for the specified subscription.

Request

The Create Affinity Group request may be specified as follows. Replace <subscription-id> with the subscription ID.

Method	Request URI
POST	https://management.core.windows.net/<subscription-id>/affinitygroups

URI Parameters

None.

Request Headers

The following table describes the request headers.

Request Header	Description
content_type	Required. Set this header to application/xml.
x-ms-version	Required. Specifies the version of the operation to use for this request. This header should be set to 2011-02-25 or higher.

Request Body

The format of the request body is as follows:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<CreateAffinityGroup xmlns="https://schemas.microsoft.com/windowsazure">
      <Name>affinity-group-name</Name>
      <Label>base64-encoded-affinity-group-label</Label>
      <Description>affinity-group-description</Description>
      <Location>location</Location>
</CreateAffinityGroup>

The following table describes the elements of the request body.

Element Name	Description
Name	Required. A name for the affinity group that is unique to the subscription.
Label	Required. A base-64 encoded name for the affinity group. The name can be up to 100 characters in length.
Description	Optional. A description for the affinity group. The description can be up to 1024 characters in length.
Location	Required. The data center location where the affinity group will be created. To list available locations, use the List Locations operation.

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 201 (Created).

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