This Blueprint is used for starting single or multiple Azure Virtual Machines.
An Azure Virtual Machines is the Azure infrastructure as a service (IaaS) used to deploy virtual machines, it's commonly shorted to VMs with nearly any VM server workload that you want.
They provide on-demand and scalable computing resources with usage-based pricing.
- On the Inputs tab, create a Windows Node for the host you wish to run this Blueprint.
- On the Inputs tab, create a Windows Credentials to connect to the host you wish to run this Blueprint.
- On the Inputs tab, create a Text value to store the values below:
- AzureUserName: This is the Username of the Azure Administrator (DataType: String).
- AzurePassword: This is the Password of the Azure Administrator (DataType: String).
- AzureVmNames: This holds an array of VM(s) name(s) in Azure (DataType: Array).
AzureVmNames Syntax:
@('VMOne', 'VMTwo', 'VMThree')
- Check and Install the Azure AzPowerShell Module
- Start the Azure Virtual Machine(s)