Create Failure Domain

Creates a new failure domain.

Request:

Method:

POST

URI Path(s):

/api/v1/failure-domains

Request Headers:

n/a

Query Parameters:

n/a

Request Body:

FailureDomain+

FailureDomain (schema)

Name	Description	Type	Notes
_create_time	Timestamp of resource creation	EpochMsTimestamp	Readonly Sortable
_create_user	ID of the user who created this resource	string	Readonly
_last_modified_time	Timestamp of last modification	EpochMsTimestamp	Readonly Sortable
_last_modified_user	ID of the user who last modified this resource	string	Readonly
_links	References related to this resource The server will populate this field when returing the resource. Ignored on PUT and POST.	array of ResourceLink	Readonly
_protection	Indicates protection status of this resource Protection status is one of the following: PROTECTED - the client who retrieved the entity is not allowed to modify it. NOT_PROTECTED - the client who retrieved the entity is allowed to modify it REQUIRE_OVERRIDE - the client who retrieved the entity is a super user and can modify it, but only when providing the request header X-Allow-Overwrite=true. UNKNOWN - the _protection field could not be determined for this entity.	string	Readonly
_revision	Generation of this resource config The _revision property describes the current revision of the resource. To prevent clients from overwriting each other's changes, PUT operations must include the current _revision of the resource, which clients should obtain by issuing a GET operation. If the _revision provided in a PUT request is missing or stale, the operation will be rejected.	int
_schema	Schema for this resource	string	Readonly
_self	Link to this resource	SelfResourceLink	Readonly
_system_owned	Indicates system owned resource	boolean	Readonly
description	Description of this resource	string	Maximum length: 1024 Sortable
display_name	Identifier to use when displaying entity in logs or GUI Defaults to ID if not set	string	Maximum length: 255 Sortable
id	Unique identifier of this resource	string	Sortable
preferred_active_edge_services	Set preference for failure domain Set preference for edge transport node failure domain which will be considered while doing auto placement of logical router, DHCP and MDProxy on edge node. true: For preemptive failover mode, active edge cluster member allocation preferes this failure domain. false: For preemptive failover mode, standby edge cluster member allocation preferes this failure domain. Default will be unset. It means no explicit preference.	boolean
resource_type	Must be set to the value FailureDomain	string
tags	Opaque identifiers meaningful to the API user	array of Tag	Maximum items: 30

Example Request:

POST https://<nsx-mgr>/api/v1/failure-domains/ { "display_name":"FD1", "description":"failure domain of rack1" }

Successful Response:

Response Code:

201 Created

Response Headers:

Content-type: application/json

Response Body:

FailureDomain+

FailureDomain (schema)

Name	Description	Type	Notes
_create_time	Timestamp of resource creation	EpochMsTimestamp	Readonly Sortable
_create_user	ID of the user who created this resource	string	Readonly
_last_modified_time	Timestamp of last modification	EpochMsTimestamp	Readonly Sortable
_last_modified_user	ID of the user who last modified this resource	string	Readonly
_links	References related to this resource The server will populate this field when returing the resource. Ignored on PUT and POST.	array of ResourceLink	Readonly
_protection	Indicates protection status of this resource Protection status is one of the following: PROTECTED - the client who retrieved the entity is not allowed to modify it. NOT_PROTECTED - the client who retrieved the entity is allowed to modify it REQUIRE_OVERRIDE - the client who retrieved the entity is a super user and can modify it, but only when providing the request header X-Allow-Overwrite=true. UNKNOWN - the _protection field could not be determined for this entity.	string	Readonly
_revision	Generation of this resource config The _revision property describes the current revision of the resource. To prevent clients from overwriting each other's changes, PUT operations must include the current _revision of the resource, which clients should obtain by issuing a GET operation. If the _revision provided in a PUT request is missing or stale, the operation will be rejected.	int
_schema	Schema for this resource	string	Readonly
_self	Link to this resource	SelfResourceLink	Readonly
_system_owned	Indicates system owned resource	boolean	Readonly
description	Description of this resource	string	Maximum length: 1024 Sortable
display_name	Identifier to use when displaying entity in logs or GUI Defaults to ID if not set	string	Maximum length: 255 Sortable
id	Unique identifier of this resource	string	Sortable
preferred_active_edge_services	Set preference for failure domain Set preference for edge transport node failure domain which will be considered while doing auto placement of logical router, DHCP and MDProxy on edge node. true: For preemptive failover mode, active edge cluster member allocation preferes this failure domain. false: For preemptive failover mode, standby edge cluster member allocation preferes this failure domain. Default will be unset. It means no explicit preference.	boolean
resource_type	Must be set to the value FailureDomain	string
tags	Opaque identifiers meaningful to the API user	array of Tag	Maximum items: 30

Example Response:

{ "_revision": 0, "id": "795097bb-fb32-44f1-a074-73445ada5451", "display_name": "FD1", "description": "failure domain of rack1", "resource_type": "FailureDomain", "_last_modified_user": "admin", "_last_modified_time": 1414179082458, "_create_time": 1414179082458, "_create_user": "admin", "_schema": "/v1/schema/FailureDomain" }

Create Failure Domain

Request:

FailureDomain (schema)

Example Request:

Successful Response:

FailureDomain (schema)

Example Response:

Required Permissions:

Feature:

Additional Errors: