Start a virtual machine

Request

For information about getting started with Azure REST operations including request authentication, see Azure REST API Reference.

Method Request URI
POST https://management.azure.com/subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/resourceGroups/{resourceGroup}/providers/Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines/{vm}/start?api-version={apiVersion}
Parameter Description
subscriptionId The identifier of your subscription.
resourceGroup The resource group that contains the virtual machine.
vm The name of the virtual machine to start.
apiVersion The version of the API to use. The current version is 2016-04-30-preview.

Response

Status code: If successful, the operation returns HTTP status code of 200 (OK).