Start Roles
Updated: July 10, 2015
The Start Roles operation starts multiple Virtual Machines.
The Start Roles request may be specified as follows. Replace <subscription-id> with the subscription ID, <cloudservice-name> with the name of the cloud service, and <deployment-name> with the name of the deployment.
Method | Request URI |
|---|---|
POST | https://management.core.windows.net/<subscription-id>/services/hostedservices/<cloudservice-name>/deployments/<deployment-name>/roles/Operations |
None.
The following table describes the request headers.
Request Header | Description |
|---|---|
x-ms-version | Required. Specifies the version of the operation to use for this request. This header should be set to 2012-06-01 or higher. |
The format of the request body is as follows:
<StartRolesOperation xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/windowsazure" xmlns:i="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<OperationType>StartRolesOperation</OperationType>
<Roles>
<Name>name-of-virtual-machine</Name>
</Roles>
</StartRolesOperation>
The following table describes the elements of the request body.
Element name | Description |
|---|---|
OperationType | Required. Specifies the operation to be performed. The value must be set to StartRolesOperation. |
Roles | Required. Contains a list of names of Virtual Machines that you want to start. |
Name | Required. Specifies the name of a Virtual Machine to start. |
The response includes an HTTP status code and a set of response headers.
A successful operation returns status code 202 (Accepted).
The response for this operation includes the following headers. The response may also include additional standard HTTP headers.
Response Header | Description |
|---|---|
x-ms-request-id | A value that uniquely identifies a request made against the management service. |
None.