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az vm start

Start an Azure virtual machine.

Copy-ready commandaz vm start
az vm start -g rg-app-prod -n vm01
Production warning

Resource start, stop, restart, create, and deallocate operations affect workloads.

Requirements and permissions

Requirements
Azure CLI
Permissions
Azure RBAC permissions vary
Last reviewed
2026-07-31

Examples

Basic example

Start an Azure virtual machine.

az vm start -g rg-app-prod -n vm01

Common errors

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