Sample payload for a Create Virtual Machine Deployment operation in the Windows Azure Service Management REST API

CreateVirtualMachineDeployment

<Deployment xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/windowsazure" xmlns:i="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
  <Name>DEPLOYMENT_NAME</Name>
  <DeploymentSlot>Production</DeploymentSlot>
  <Label>Deployment 0.1</Label>      
  <RoleList>
    <Role>
      <RoleName>COMPUTER_NAME</RoleName>
      <RoleType>PersistentVMRole</RoleType>      
      <ConfigurationSets>
        <ConfigurationSet>
          <ConfigurationSetType>WindowsProvisioningConfiguration</ConfigurationSetType>
          <ComputerName>COMPUTER_NAME</ComputerName>
          <AdminPassword>PASSWORD</AdminPassword> 
          <AdminUsername>USER_NAME</AdminUsername>
        </ConfigurationSet>
          <ConfigurationSet>
            <ConfigurationSetType>NetworkConfiguration</ConfigurationSetType>
            <InputEndpoints>
              <InputEndpoint>
                <LocalPort>3389</LocalPort>
                <Name>RDP</Name>
                <Port>3389</Port>
                <Protocol>TCP</Protocol>
                <EnableDirectServerReturn>false</EnableDirectServerReturn>
                <EndpointAcl>
                  <Rules>
                    <Rule>
                      <Order>1</Order>
                      <Action>permit</Action>
                      <RemoteSubnet>209.116.0.0/16</RemoteSubnet>
                      <Description>Lock down RDP</Description>
                    </Rule>
                  </Rules>
                </EndpointAcl>
              </InputEndpoint>
            </InputEndpoints>
        </ConfigurationSet>
      </ConfigurationSets>
      <OSVirtualHardDisk>
        <HostCaching>ReadWrite</HostCaching>    
        <DiskLabel>os-disk-label</DiskLabel>
        <DiskName>DISK_NAME</DiskName>                    
        <MediaLink>http://STORAGE_ACCOUNT.blob.core.windows.net/vhds/DISK_NAME.vhd</MediaLink> 
        <SourceImageName>a699494373c04fc0bc8f2bb1389d6106__Win2K8R2SP1-Datacenter-201305.01-en.us-127GB.vhd</SourceImageName>
      </OSVirtualHardDisk>      
      <RoleSize>Small</RoleSize>      
    </Role>
  </RoleList>
</Deployment>