POST /subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/resourceGroups/{resourceGroupName}/providers/Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachineScaleSets/{vmScaleSetName}/start/?api-version=2023-09-01

Starts one or more virtual machines in a VM scale set.

Servers

Path parameters

Name Type Required Description
vmScaleSetName String Yes

The name of the VM scale set.

subscriptionId String Yes

Subscription credentials which uniquely identify Microsoft Azure subscription. The subscription ID forms part of the URI for every service call.

resourceGroupName String Yes

The name of the resource group.

Request headers

Name Type Required Description
Content-Type String Yes The media type of the request body.

Default value: "application/json"

Request body fields

Name Type Required Description
instanceIds[] Array No

The virtual machine scale set instance ids. Omitting the virtual machine scale set instance ids will result in the operation being performed on all virtual machines in the virtual machine scale set.

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