Virtual Machine Scale Sets - Deallocate

Deallocates specific virtual machines in a VM scale set. Shuts down the virtual machines and releases the compute resources. You are not billed for the compute resources that this virtual machine scale set deallocates.

POST https://management.azure.com/subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/resourceGroups/{resourceGroupName}/providers/Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachineScaleSets/{vmScaleSetName}/deallocate?api-version=2024-03-01
POST https://management.azure.com/subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/resourceGroups/{resourceGroupName}/providers/Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachineScaleSets/{vmScaleSetName}/deallocate?hibernate={hibernate}&api-version=2024-03-01

URI Parameters

Name In Required Type Description
resourceGroupName
path True

string

The name of the resource group.

subscriptionId
path True

string

Subscription credentials which uniquely identify Microsoft Azure subscription. The subscription ID forms part of the URI for every service call.

vmScaleSetName
path True

string

The name of the VM scale set.

api-version
query True

string

Client Api Version.

hibernate
query

boolean

Optional parameter to hibernate a virtual machine from the VM scale set. (This feature is available for VMSS with Flexible OrchestrationMode only)

Request Body

Name Type Description
instanceIds

string[]

The virtual machine scale set instance ids. Omitting the virtual machine scale set instance ids will result in the operation being performed on all virtual machines in the virtual machine scale set.

Responses

Name Type Description
200 OK

OK

202 Accepted

Accepted

Other Status Codes

CloudError

Error response describing why the operation failed.

Security

azure_auth

Azure Active Directory OAuth2 Flow

Type: oauth2
Flow: implicit
Authorization URL: https://login.microsoftonline.com/common/oauth2/authorize

Scopes

Name Description
user_impersonation impersonate your user account

Examples

VirtualMachineScaleSet_Deallocate_MaximumSet_Gen
VirtualMachineScaleSet_Deallocate_MinimumSet_Gen

VirtualMachineScaleSet_Deallocate_MaximumSet_Gen

Sample Request

POST https://management.azure.com/subscriptions/{subscription-id}/resourceGroups/rgcompute/providers/Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachineScaleSets/aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa/deallocate?hibernate=True&api-version=2024-03-01

{
  "instanceIds": [
    "aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa"
  ]
}

Sample Response

location: https://foo.com/operationstatus

VirtualMachineScaleSet_Deallocate_MinimumSet_Gen

Sample Request

POST https://management.azure.com/subscriptions/{subscription-id}/resourceGroups/rgcompute/providers/Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachineScaleSets/aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa/deallocate?api-version=2024-03-01

Sample Response

location: https://foo.com/operationstatus

Definitions

Name Description
ApiError

Api error.

ApiErrorBase

Api error base.

CloudError

An error response from the Compute service.

InnerError

Inner error details.

VirtualMachineScaleSetVMInstanceIDs

Specifies a list of virtual machine instance IDs from the VM scale set.

ApiError

Api error.

Name Type Description
code

string

The error code.

details

ApiErrorBase[]

The Api error details

innererror

InnerError

The Api inner error

message

string

The error message.

target

string

The target of the particular error.

ApiErrorBase

Api error base.

Name Type Description
code

string

The error code.

message

string

The error message.

target

string

The target of the particular error.

CloudError

An error response from the Compute service.

Name Type Description
error

ApiError

Api error.

InnerError

Inner error details.

Name Type Description
errordetail

string

The internal error message or exception dump.

exceptiontype

string

The exception type.

VirtualMachineScaleSetVMInstanceIDs

Specifies a list of virtual machine instance IDs from the VM scale set.

Name Type Description
instanceIds

string[]

The virtual machine scale set instance ids. Omitting the virtual machine scale set instance ids will result in the operation being performed on all virtual machines in the virtual machine scale set.