Azure Compute Cmdlets Reference

This section provides comprehensive documentation for the Azure PowerShell cmdlets used to manage compute resources in Azure. Explore the cmdlets below to learn how to provision, configure, and manage virtual machines, scale sets, disks, and more.

Virtual Machines

Get-AzVM

Retrieves information about virtual machines.

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New-AzVM

Creates a new virtual machine.

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Update-AzVM

Modifies an existing virtual machine.

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Remove-AzVM

Deletes a virtual machine.

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Start-AzVM

Starts a virtual machine.

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Stop-AzVM

Stops a virtual machine.

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Restart-AzVM

Restarts a virtual machine.

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Set-AzVMSourceImage

Configures the operating system image for a virtual machine.

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Virtual Machine Scale Sets

Get-AzVmss

Retrieves information about virtual machine scale sets.

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New-AzVmss

Creates a new virtual machine scale set.

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Update-AzVmss

Modifies an existing virtual machine scale set.

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Remove-AzVmss

Deletes a virtual machine scale set.

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Disks

Get-AzDisk

Retrieves information about managed disks.

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New-AzDisk

Creates a new managed disk.

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Update-AzDisk

Modifies an existing managed disk.

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Remove-AzDisk

Deletes a managed disk.

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Examples

Here are a few common examples of using Azure Compute cmdlets:

# Create a new virtual machine
New-AzVM -ResourceGroupName "MyResourceGroup" -Name "MyVM" -Location "East US" -ImageName "Win2019Datacenter"

# Get all virtual machines in a resource group
Get-AzVM -ResourceGroupName "MyResourceGroup"

# Stop a virtual machine
Stop-AzVM -ResourceGroupName "MyResourceGroup" -Name "MyVM" -Force

# Create a virtual machine scale set
New-AzVmss -ResourceGroupName "MyResourceGroup" -Name "MyVmss" -ImageName "UbuntuLTS" -InstanceCount 3 -VirtualNetworkName "MyVNet"