{"id":4542,"date":"2012-11-29T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-29T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2012\/11\/29\/powertip-start-all-virtual-machines-on-remote-servers-running-hyper-v\/"},"modified":"2012-11-29T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2012-11-29T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-start-all-virtual-machines-on-remote-servers-running-hyper-v","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-start-all-virtual-machines-on-remote-servers-running-hyper-v\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Start All Virtual Machines on Remote Servers Running Hyper-V"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Summary:<\/strong>&nbsp;See how to start all virtual machines on remote servers running Hyper-V by using Windows PowerShell.<\/p>\n<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/q-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Question\" \/>&nbsp;<\/strong>How can I start all virtual machines on several remote servers running Hyper-V by using Windows PowerShell?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/a-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Answer\" \/>&nbsp;Use the pattern Get-VM | Start-VM but with the&nbsp;<strong>Get-VM<\/strong>&nbsp;cmdlet to specify an array of servers running Hyper-V, as shown here.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 150px\">get-vm -Computer hyperv3,hyperv2 | start-vm<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 90px\">Use the&nbsp;<strong>Get-VM<\/strong>&nbsp;cmdlet to determine the status of the remote virtual machines, as shown here.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 150px\">PS C:\\&gt; get-vm -Computer hyperv3,hyperv2<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 150px\">Name&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; State&nbsp;&nbsp; CPUUsage(%) MemoryAssigned(M) Uptime&nbsp;&nbsp; Status<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 150px\">&#8212;-&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &#8212;&#8211;&nbsp;&nbsp; &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211; &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211; &#8212;&#8212;&nbsp;&nbsp; &#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 150px\">dc3&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Running 0&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 512&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 00:00:16 Operating normally<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 150px\">dc4&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Running 0&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 512&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 00:00:15 Operating normally<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 150px\">Ex1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Running 0&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 4096&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 00:00:13 Operating normally<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary:&nbsp;See how to start all virtual machines on remote servers running Hyper-V by using Windows PowerShell. &nbsp;How can I start all virtual machines on several remote servers running Hyper-V by using Windows PowerShell? &nbsp;Use the pattern Get-VM | Start-VM but with the&nbsp;Get-VM&nbsp;cmdlet to specify an array of servers running Hyper-V, as shown here. get-vm -Computer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":87096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[356,3,45],"class_list":["post-4542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-powertip","tag-scripting-guy","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary:&nbsp;See how to start all virtual machines on remote servers running Hyper-V by using Windows PowerShell. &nbsp;How can I start all virtual machines on several remote servers running Hyper-V by using Windows PowerShell? &nbsp;Use the pattern Get-VM | Start-VM but with the&nbsp;Get-VM&nbsp;cmdlet to specify an array of servers running Hyper-V, as shown here. get-vm -Computer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}