Completely Delete Virtual Machine

PUT/zstack/v1/vm-instances/{uuid}/actions

Request

cURL

curl --request PUT \
  --url '/v1/vm-instances/{uuid}/actions' \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data '{}'

{
  "status": "ok",
  "method": "PUT",
  "path": "/v1/vm-instances/{uuid}/actions"
}

Completely delete a Virtual Machine in Destroyed state. This operation removes the Virtual Machine from the database and deletes the root disk of the Virtual Machine on the data storage. This operation cannot be undone once executed.

Headers

Authorization: OAuth the-session-uuid

Body

{
  "expungeVmInstance": {},
  "systemTags": [],
  "userTags": []
}

The systemTags and userTags fields in the example above are optional. Listed to indicate these fields can be included in the body.

Curl Example

curl -H "Content-Type: application/json;charset=UTF-8" \
-H "Authorization: OAuth b86c9016b4f24953a9edefb53ca0678c" \
-X PUT -d '{"expungeVmInstance":{}}' \
http://localhost:8080/zstack/v1/vm-instances/e57788f713963e98a99a9f6b0bd8482c/actions

Parameter List

Name	Type	Location	Description	Starting Version
uuid	String	url	Virtual Machine UUID	0.6
systemTags (optional)	List	body	System Tags	0.6
userTags (optional)	List	body	User Tags	0.6

API Response

On success, this API returns an empty JSON object {}. On error, the returned JSON contains an error field, for example:

{
  "error": {
    "code": "SYS.1001",
    "description": "A message or a operation timeout",
    "details": "Create VM on KVM timeout after 300s"
  }
}

SDK Examples

Java SDK

ExpungeVmInstanceAction action = new ExpungeVmInstanceAction();
action.uuid = "f3b0b9538e6a49a88e189ba2c42b728e";
action.sessionId = "332f2d77997446fbaef62df0411b2635";
ExpungeVmInstanceAction.Result res = action.call();

Python SDK

ExpungeVmInstanceAction action = ExpungeVmInstanceAction()
action.uuid = "1cc86ac86211480485a251a48bc1928e"
action.sessionId = "6af024d8e8bf44709b42ffa623e96073"
ExpungeVmInstanceAction.Result res = action.call()