Start Roles

 

The Start Roles operation starts multiple Virtual Machines.

Request

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

URI Parameters

None.

Request Headers

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.

Request Body

The format of the request body is as follows:

<StartRolesOperation xmlns="https://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.

Response

The response includes an HTTP status code and a set of response headers.

Status Code

A successful operation returns status code 202 (Accepted).

Response Headers

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.

Response Body

None.