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Virtual Machines - Power Off

The operation to power off (stop) a virtual machine. The virtual machine can be restarted with the same provisioned resources. You are still charged for this virtual machine. NOTE: This operation is not allowed on a virtual machine that is being deallocated or has already been deallocated.

POST https://management.azure.com/subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/resourceGroups/{resourceGroupName}/providers/Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines/{vmName}/powerOff?api-version=2024-07-01
POST https://management.azure.com/subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/resourceGroups/{resourceGroupName}/providers/Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines/{vmName}/powerOff?skipShutdown={skipShutdown}&api-version=2024-07-01

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.

vmName
path True

string

The name of the virtual machine.

api-version
query True

string

Client Api Version.

skipShutdown
query

boolean

The parameter to request non-graceful VM shutdown. True value for this flag indicates non-graceful shutdown whereas false indicates otherwise. Default value for this flag is false if not specified

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

VirtualMachine_PowerOff_MaximumSet_Gen
VirtualMachine_PowerOff_MinimumSet_Gen

VirtualMachine_PowerOff_MaximumSet_Gen

Sample request

POST https://management.azure.com/subscriptions/{subscription-id}/resourceGroups/rgcompute/providers/Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines/aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa/powerOff?skipShutdown=True&api-version=2024-07-01

Sample response

location: https://foo.com/operationstatus

VirtualMachine_PowerOff_MinimumSet_Gen

Sample request

POST https://management.azure.com/subscriptions/{subscription-id}/resourceGroups/rgcompute/providers/Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines/aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa/powerOff?api-version=2024-07-01

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.

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.