Resume-SCVirtualMachine

Resumes paused virtual machines managed by VMM.

Description

The Resume-SCVirtualMachine cmdlet resumes one or more paused virtual machines managed by System Center Virtual Machine Manager (VMM). A paused virtual machine is one that has been suspended by using the Suspend-SCVirtualMachine cmdlet. Using the Resume-SCVirtualMachine cmdlet to resume a virtual machine returns its object in a Running state. When the virtual machine is running again, the user can resume activity on that virtual machine. 

If you run Resume-SCVirtualMachine on a virtual machine that is already running, the cmdlet returns an error message indicating that the virtual machine is not in a state that Resume-SCVirtualMachine can act on. 

For more information about Resume-SCVirtualMachine, type: "Get-Help Resume-SCVirtualMachine -online".

Parameters

VM

Required? true
Accept Pipeline Input? true (ByValue)
Position? 0
Specifies a virtual machine object.

JobVariable

Required? false
Accept Pipeline Input? false
Position? named
Specifies that job progress is tracked and stored in the variable named by this parameter. 

PROTipID

Required? false
Accept Pipeline Input? false
Position? named
Specifies the ID of the PRO tip that triggered this action. This allows for auditing of PRO tips.

RunAsynchronously

Required? false
Accept Pipeline Input? false
Position? named
Indicates that the job runs asynchronously so that control returns to the command shell immediately. 
Requires a virtual machine object, which can be retrieved by using the Get-SCVirtualMachine cmdlet. 

Examples

1: Resume a paused virtual machine.
PS C:\> $VM = Get-SCVirtualMachine -Name "VM01"
PS C:\> Resume-SCVirtualMachine -VM $VM
The first command gets the virtual machine object named VM01 (which this example assumes to be in a paused state) and stores the object in the $VM variable. 

The second command resumes the virtual machine stored in $VM (in this case, VM01) to a running state and displays information about the object to the user.  
2: Resume all paused virtual machines.
PS C:\> $VMs = Get-SCVirtualMachine -VMMServer "VMMServer01.Contoso.com" | where {$_.Status -eq "Paused"}
PS C:\> $VMs | Resume-SCVirtualMachine
The first command gets all virtual machine objects  from VMMServer01 that are paused, and then stores the objects in the $VMs object array. 

The second command passes each object stored in $VMs to Resume-VM, which resumes each virtual machine to a running state.

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