Starting and stopping Azure VMs with Azure PowerShell
To be honest: I’m lazy and I have a wife and two kids. Therefore I have to minimize the costs of my lab. I have a physical lab at the office and some VMs running on Microsoft Azure. Azure is nice, because I only have to pay what I really use. And because I’m only paying the actual use, I start the VMs only when I need them. Inspired by this very handy Azure VM wakeup & shutdown script, I decided to write my own script (yes, I invented a wheel again…). Very simple, nothing fancy. Feel free to use and modify the script according to your needs.
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| #requires -Version 3 -Modules Azure | |
| Function Start-AllAzureVMs { | |
| <# | |
| .SYNOPSIS | |
| Simply run Start-AllAzureVMs without any parameter. | |
| .DESCRIPTION | |
| This script starts all Microsoft Azure VMs that are in the "StoppedDeallocated" state. | |
| .EXAMPLE | |
| Start-AllAzureVMs | |
| Start all Azure VMs that are in the "StoppedDeallocated" state. | |
| .NOTES | |
| Author: Patrick Terlisten, patrick@blazilla.de, Twitter @PTerlisten | |
| This script doesn't include credentials for your Microsoft Azure account. | |
| Please make sure that you've added your Azure account. | |
| This script is provided "AS IS" with no warranty expressed or implied. Run at your own risk. | |
| This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike 4.0 | |
| International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/). | |
| .LINK | |
| http://www.vcloudnine.de | |
| #> | |
| Process | |
| { | |
| try | |
| { | |
| # Get all stopped VMs | |
| $AllStoppedVMs = Get-AzureVM | Where-Object -FilterScript {$_.Status -eq 'StoppedDeallocated'} | Select-Object -Property Name, Status, ServiceName | |
| # Give a list of all VMs that will be started | |
| Write-Host -Object "`n" | |
| Write-Host -Object "Starting the following VMs`n" -ForegroundColor DarkGreen | |
| $AllStoppedVMs | |
| # Start the VMs | |
| $AllStoppedVMs | Start-AzureVM | |
| Write-Host -Object "`n" | |
| Write-Host -Object "Finished starting the following VMs`n" -ForegroundColor DarkGreen | |
| } | |
| catch | |
| { | |
| "Error was $_" | |
| $line = $_.InvocationInfo.ScriptLineNumber | |
| "Error was in Line $line" | |
| } | |
| finally | |
| { | |
| # Give a list after all VMs has been started | |
| Get-AzureVM | Where-Object -FilterScript {$_.Status -ne 'StoppedDeallocated'} | Select-Object -Property Name, Status, ServiceName -Wait | |
| } | |
| } | |
| } | |
| Function Stop-AllAzureVMs { | |
| <# | |
| .SYNOPSIS | |
| Simply run Stop-AllAzureVMs without any parameter. | |
| .DESCRIPTIOn | |
| This script stops all Microsoft Azure VMs that are in the "ReadyRole" state. | |
| .EXAMPLE | |
| Stop-AllAzureVMs | |
| Stop al Azure VMs that are in the "ReadyRole" state. | |
| .NOTES | |
| Author: Patrick Terlisten, patrick@blazilla.de, Twitter @PTerlisten | |
| This script doesn't include credentials for your Microsoft Azure account. | |
| Please make sure that you've added your Azure account. | |
| In case of stopping the VMs, the VM will enter the state "StoppedDeallocated". | |
| This means that the VM will loose its IP reservation, but it isn't billed until | |
| it's started again. | |
| .LINK | |
| http://www.vcloudnine.de | |
| #> | |
| Process | |
| { | |
| try | |
| { | |
| # Get all running VMs | |
| $AllRunningVMs = Get-AzureVM | Where-Object -FilterScript {$_.Status -eq 'ReadyRole'} | Select-Object -Property Name, Status, ServiceName | |
| # Give a list of all VMs that will be stopped | |
| Write-Host -Object "`n" | |
| Write-Host -Object "Stopping the following VMs`n" -ForegroundColor DarkGreen | |
| $AllRunningVMs | |
| # Stop all running VMs | |
| $AllRunningVMs | Stop-AzureVM -Force | |
| Write-Host -Object "`n" | |
| Write-Host -Object "Finished stopping the following VMs`n" -ForegroundColor DarkGreen | |
| # Give a list after all VMs has been stopped | |
| Get-AzureVM | Where-Object -FilterScript {$_.Status -eq 'StoppedDeallocated'} | Select-Object -Property Name, Status, ServiceName -Wait | |
| } | |
| catch | |
| { | |
| "Error was $_" | |
| $line = $_.InvocationInfo.ScriptLineNumber | |
| "Error was in Line $line" | |
| } | |
| finally | |
| { | |
| # Give a list after all VMs has been started | |
| Get-AzureVM | Where-Object -FilterScript {$_.Status -ne 'StoppedDeallocated'} | Select-Object -Property Name, Status, ServiceName -Wait | |
| } | |
| } | |
| } |