How to get the Power state of the Azure VM using PowerShell?

There are the below Power State for the Azure VM.

Starting − The virtual machine is being started.
Running − The virtual machine is currently running
Stopping − The virtual machine is being stopped
Stopped − The virtual machine is currently stopped and but still incur compute charges.
Deallocating − The virtual machine is being deallocated.
Deallocated − The virtual machine is deallocated and released all the resources and does not incur the charges.
- − The Power State of the virtual machine is unknown.

To get the status of the virtual machine, there are two ways.

PS C:\> Get-AzVM -VMName Win2k16VM1 -Status

Output

You can see the PowerState of the VM is deallocated.

The other way to retrieve the status is by adding the -ResourceGroup property along with the -Status.

PS C:\> Get-AzVM -VMName Win2k16VM1 -ResourceGroupName TestVMRG -Status

To get the status from the above output, you can modify the command as shown below.

PS C:\> $vm = Get-AzVM -VMName Win2k16VM1 -ResourceGroupName TestVMRG -
Status

PS C:\> $vm.Statuses[1].Code

PowerState/deallocated

To get the output for the Multiple virtual machines in the Particular subscription,

PS C:\> Get-AzVM -Status

Chirag Nagrekar

Updated on: 2021-09-02T11:12:01+05:30

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