ImportVolume - Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
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ImportVolume

Note

This API action supports only single-volume VMs. To import multi-volume VMs, use ImportImage instead. To import a disk to a snapshot, use ImportSnapshot instead.

Creates an import volume task using metadata from the specified disk image.

For information about the import manifest referenced by this API action, see VM Import Manifest.

This API action is not supported by the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI).

Request Parameters

The following parameters are for this specific action. For more information about required and optional parameters that are common to all actions, see Common Query Parameters.

AvailabilityZone

The Availability Zone for the resulting EBS volume.

Type: String

Required: Yes

Description

A description of the volume.

Type: String

Required: No

DryRun

Checks whether you have the required permissions for the action, without actually making the request, and provides an error response. If you have the required permissions, the error response is DryRunOperation. Otherwise, it is UnauthorizedOperation.

Type: Boolean

Required: No

Image

The disk image.

Type: DiskImageDetail object

Required: Yes

Volume

The volume size.

Type: VolumeDetail object

Required: Yes

Response Elements

The following elements are returned by the service.

conversionTask

Information about the conversion task.

Type: ConversionTask object

requestId

The ID of the request.

Type: String

Errors

For information about the errors that are common to all actions, see Common client error codes.

Examples

Example

This example creates an import volume task that migrates a Windows Server 2008 SP2 (32-bit) volume into the us-east-1 Region.

Sample Request

https://ec2.amazonaws.com/?Action=ImportVolume
&AvailabilityZone=us-east-1c
&Image.Format=VMDK
&Image.Bytes=128696320
&Image.ImportManifestUrl=https://s3.amazonaws.com/amzn-s3-demo-bucket/​a3a5e1b6-590d-43cc-97c1-15c7325d3f41/​Win_2008_Server_Data_Center_SP2_32-bit.​vmdkmanifest.xml?AWSAccessKeyId=​AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE&​Expires=1294855591&​Signature=5snej01TlTtL0uR7KExtEXAMPLE%3D
&Volume.Size=8
&AUTHPARAMS>

Sample Response

<ImportVolumeResponse xmlns="http://ec2.amazonaws.com/doc/2016-11-15/">
   <conversionTask>
     <conversionTaskId>import-i-fh95npoc</conversionTaskId>
     <expirationTime>2010-12-22T12:01Z</expirationTime>
     <importVolume>
        <bytesConverted>0</bytesConverted>
        <availabilityZone>us-east-1c</availabilityZone>
        <description/>
        <image>
            <format>VDMK</format>
            <size>128696320</size>
            <importManifestUrl>
               https://s3.amazonaws.com/amzn-s3-demo-bucket/​a3a5e1b6-590d-43cc-97c1-15c7325d3f41/​Win_2008_Server_Data_Center_SP2_32-bit.​vmdkmanifest.xml?AWSAccessKeyId=​AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE&​Expires=1294855591&​Signature=5snej01TlTtL0uR7KExtEXAMPLE%3D
            </importManifestUrl>
            <checksum>ccb1b0536a4a70e86016b85229b5c6b10b14a4eb</checksum>
        </image>
        <volume>
           <size>8</size>
           <id>vol-1234567890abcdef0</id>
        </volume>
     </importVolume>
     <state>active</state>
     <statusMessage/>
  </conversionTask>
</ImportVolumeResponse>

See Also

For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following: