Restart VM Instance

Updated: November 1, 2013

Applies To: System Center 2012 R2 Orchestrator, System Center 2012 SP1 - Orchestrator

The Restart VM Instance activity restarts the specified virtual machine. It is part of the Azure Virtual Machines category activity.

The activity publishes all of the data from the required and optional properties into published data. The following tables list the required and optional properties and published data for this activity.

Restart VM Instance Required Properties

Element

Description

Valid values

VM Service Name

The name of the cloud service containing the virtual machine.

String

VM Deployment Name

The name of the deployment containing the virtual machine.

String

VM Instance Name

The name of the virtual machine.

String

Wait for Completion

Whether to wait for this operation to complete in Windows Azure before moving on to the next activity.

True, False

Restart VM Instance Optional Properties

There are no optional properties for this runbook activity.

Restart VM Instance Published Data

Element

Description

Value type

VM Service Name

The name of the cloud service containing the virtual machine.

String

VM Deployment Name

The name of the deployment containing the virtual machine.

String

VM Instance Name

The name of the virtual machine.

String

Wait for Completion

Whether to wait for this operation to complete in Windows Azure before moving on to the next activity.

True, False

Request ID

The unique identifier of the request to Windows Azure.

String

See Also

Other Resources

Using Runbooks in System Center 2012 - Orchestrator