Recently, I got the opportunity to utilize the az vm start Azure CLI command to start my Azure Virtual Machine. In this article, I will walk you through the syntax and usage of the az vm start command with specific examples and proper output screenshots.
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az vm start
This command helps you to start a stopped Azure VM.
Syntax
az vm start [--ids] [--name] [--resource-group]Example -1
The command below helps you start a stopped virtual machine named AzurelessonsNewVM that belongs to the newresgroup resource group.
az vm start -g newresgroup -n AzurelessonsNewVMBefore executing the above command I just logged in to the Azure Portal and verified that the virtual machine is already in a stopped state. Check out the screenshot below for your reference.
After executing the above command, I got the expected output, as shown below.
Now, to cross-check, I logged in to the Azure Portal again, verified the Azure Virtual Machine’s status, and saw the VM started successfully, as shown in the screenshot below.
Example -2
The command below also helps you to start a stopped VM named AzurelessonsNewVM that belongs to the newresgroup resource group.
az vm start --name AzurelessonsNewVM --no-wait --resource-group newresgroupBefore executing the above command, Let us check the status of your Azure VM.
Let us execute the above command; I got the expected output, as shown in the screenshot below.
Now, just cross-checked in the Azure portal, you can see the Azure VM status changed to Running, which means the Azure VM started successfully, as shown in the screenshot below.
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I am Rajkishore, and I am a Microsoft Certified IT Consultant. I have over 14 years of experience in Microsoft Azure and AWS, with good experience in Azure Functions, Storage, Virtual Machines, Logic Apps, PowerShell Commands, CLI Commands, Machine Learning, AI, Azure Cognitive Services, DevOps, etc. Not only that, I do have good real-time experience in designing and developing cloud-native data integrations on Azure or AWS, etc. I hope you will learn from these practical Azure tutorials. Read more.
