Creating a Dedicated Group

You can create a dedicated group to isolate your VMs at creation on a server allocated to the dedicated group. For more information, see About Dedicated Groups.

Creating a Dedicated Group Using OSC CLI

This feature is currently in beta.

The CreateDedicatedGroup command creates a dedicated group for virtual machines (VMs).

For more information, see About Dedicated Groups.

Request sample

$ osc-cli api CreateDedicatedGroup --profile "default" \
    --CpuGeneration 4 \
    --Name "dedicated-group-example" \
    --SubregionName "eu-west-2a"

This command contains the following attributes that you need to specify:

CpuGeneration: The processor generation for the VMs in the dedicated group (for example, 4).
DryRun: (optional) If true, checks whether you have the required permissions to perform the action.
Name: A name for the dedicated group.
SubregionName: The Subregion in which you want to create the dedicated group.

The CreateDedicatedGroup command returns the following elements:

DedicatedGroup: Information about the dedicated group.
ResponseContext: Information about the context of the response.

Result sample

{
  "ResponseContext": {
    "RequestId": "0475ca1e-d0c5-441d-712a-da55a4175157"
  },
  "DedicatedGroup": {
    "VmIds": [],
    "NetIds": [],
    "AccountId": "123456789012",
    "CpuGeneration": 4,
    "Name": "dedicated-group-example",
    "SubregionName": "eu-west-2a",
    "DedicatedGroupId": "ded-12345678"
  }
}

Related Pages

Corresponding API Method

CreateDedicatedGroup (OUTSCALE API)