Apache CloudStack v4.7.0 Domain Admin API Reference
createServiceOffering
Creates a service offering.
Request parameters
| Parameter Name | Description | Required |
| displaytext | the display text of the service offering | true |
| name | the name of the service offering | true |
| bytesreadrate | bytes read rate of the disk offering | false |
| byteswriterate | bytes write rate of the disk offering | false |
| cpunumber | the CPU number of the service offering | false |
| cpuspeed | the CPU speed of the service offering in MHz. | false |
| customizediops | whether compute offering iops is custom or not | false |
| deploymentplanner | The deployment planner heuristics used to deploy a VM of this offering. If null, value of global config vm.deployment.planner is used | false |
| domainid | the ID of the containing domain, null for public offerings | false |
| hosttags | the host tag for this service offering. | false |
| hypervisorsnapshotreserve | Hypervisor snapshot reserve space as a percent of a volume (for managed storage using Xen or VMware) | false |
| iopsreadrate | io requests read rate of the disk offering | false |
| iopswriterate | io requests write rate of the disk offering | false |
| issystem | is this a system vm offering | false |
| isvolatile | true if the virtual machine needs to be volatile so that on every reboot of VM, original root disk is dettached then destroyed and a fresh root disk is created and attached to VM | false |
| limitcpuuse | restrict the CPU usage to committed service offering | false |
| maxiops | max iops of the compute offering | false |
| memory | the total memory of the service offering in MB | false |
| miniops | min iops of the compute offering | false |
| networkrate | data transfer rate in megabits per second allowed. Supported only for non-System offering and system offerings having "domainrouter" systemvmtype | false |
| offerha | the HA for the service offering | false |
| provisioningtype | provisioning type used to create volumes. Valid values are thin, sparse, fat. | false |
| serviceofferingdetails | details for planner, used to store specific parameters | false |
| storagetype | the storage type of the service offering. Values are local and shared. | false |
| systemvmtype | the system VM type. Possible types are "domainrouter", "consoleproxy" and "secondarystoragevm". | false |
| tags | the tags for this service offering. | false |
Response Tags
| Response Name | Description |
| id | the id of the service offering |
| cpunumber | the number of CPU |
| cpuspeed | the clock rate CPU speed in Mhz |
| created | the date this service offering was created |
| defaultuse | is this a default system vm offering |
| deploymentplanner | deployment strategy used to deploy VM. |
| diskBytesReadRate | bytes read rate of the service offering |
| diskBytesWriteRate | bytes write rate of the service offering |
| diskIopsReadRate | io requests read rate of the service offering |
| diskIopsWriteRate | io requests write rate of the service offering |
| displaytext | an alternate display text of the service offering. |
| domain | Domain name for the offering |
| domainid | the domain id of the service offering |
| hosttags | the host tag for the service offering |
| hypervisorsnapshotreserve | Hypervisor snapshot reserve space as a percent of a volume (for managed storage using Xen or VMware) |
| iscustomized | is true if the offering is customized |
| iscustomizediops | true if disk offering uses custom iops, false otherwise |
| issystem | is this a system vm offering |
| isvolatile | true if the vm needs to be volatile, i.e., on every reboot of vm from API root disk is discarded and creates a new root disk |
| limitcpuuse | restrict the CPU usage to committed service offering |
| maxiops | the max iops of the disk offering |
| memory | the memory in MB |
| miniops | the min iops of the disk offering |
| name | the name of the service offering |
| networkrate | data transfer rate in megabits per second allowed. |
| offerha | the ha support in the service offering |
| provisioningtype | provisioning type used to create volumes. Valid values are thin, sparse, fat. |
| serviceofferingdetails | additional key/value details tied with this service offering |
| storagetype | the storage type for this service offering |
| systemvmtype | is this a the systemvm type for system vm offering |
| tags | the tags for the service offering |