vcenter vm power: start
Powers on a powered-off or suspended virtual machine.
Request:
HTTP request
POST https://{server}/rest/vcenter/vm/{vm}/power/start
Path Parameters
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Required | ||
| vm | string | Virtual machine identifier. |
Response:
HTTP Status Code: 200
NoneErrors:
| HTTP Status Code | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 500 | error | if the system reports an error while responding to the request. |
| 404 | not_found | if the virtual machine is not found. |
| 400 | already_in_desired_state | if the virtual machine is already powered on. |
| 400 | unsupported | if the virtual machine does not support being powered on (e.g. marked as a template, serving as a fault-tolerance secondary virtual machine). |
| 400 | unable_to_allocate_resource | if resources cannot be allocated for the virtual machine (e.g. physical resource allocation policy cannot be satisfied, insufficient licenses are available to run the virtual machine). |
| 400 | resource_inaccessible | if resources required by the virtual machine are not accessible (e.g. virtual machine configuration files or virtual disks are on inaccessible storage, no hosts are available to run the virtual machine). |
| 400 | resource_in_use | if resources required by the virtual machine are in use (e.g. virtual machine configuration files or virtual disks are locked, host containing the virtual machine is an HA failover host). |
| 400 | resource_busy | if the virtual machine is performing another operation. |
| 503 | service_unavailable | if the system is unable to communicate with a service to complete the request. |
| 401 | unauthenticated | if the user can not be authenticated. |
| 403 | unauthorized | if the user doesn't have the required privileges. |