Azure Show All Running Resources

A customer of mine reported that Get-AzureRmVM does not include any field specifying whether the VM is running or not, as Get-AzureVM does.

Agreed - this should definitely be more explicit. Current workaround is to use the -Status flag on Get-AzureRmVM. You can then access the Statuses property.

For example:

(get-azurermvm -ResourceGroupName $rgName -Name $vmName -Status).Statuses

Thank you @mjyeaney ! This will do it for now - though I agree it should be made more explicit.

@EgoAleSum Behind these two results are two different APIs. Get-AzureRmVM calls the VM Model View API which doesn't have the statuses, Get-AzureRmVm -Status calls the Instance View API which returns the statuses for each of the VM resources (VM, disks and extensions)

One limitation of this approach is getting a list of your VMs together with their current status (running or not).

It's a common scenario especially for people with many VMs. Unless I am missing something, they now need to do one API call for each VM which is time consuming especially compared to the single old ASM call Get-AzureVM FT Name, Status.

Please consider allowing GetAzureRmVM -Status without specifying the VM and RG if possible.

Ain't pretty, but you can do this: Get-AzureRmVM -ResourceGroupName [RG] get-azurermvm -Status ?{$_.statuses.displaystatus -eq 'VM running'} select name

@neaorin@ned1313 We could explore calling both APIs (model and instance view) and display the most important VM properties + VM status for a vanilla Get-AzureRmVm call (without any parameters). However, this will mean more time to return the result since more API calls need to be made esp. if you have a large number of VMs in your subscription. Will the performance hit be acceptable?

The performance hit might be fine for some users (myself included) and not acceptable for others. In my view, if the performance hit is significant then it would be better to have the user opt-in by explicitly requesting instance information - for instance GetAzureRmVM -Status.

I'd like to see it scoped to a VM or ResourceGroup, so if you want to use the -Status switch it either requires a VM name or ResourceGroup name.

Further more, the same command returns different objects depending on -Status switch

Or you can do this way..

Get-AzureRmResource ?{$.ResourceType -eq 'Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines'} foreach {get-azurermvm -ResourceGroupName $.ResourceGroupName -Name $.ResourceName
-Status ?{$.Statuses[1].DisplayStatus -match 'VM Running'} select Name, ResourceGroupName, @{Label='VMStatus';Expression={'Running'}}}

I wish I could get the disk uris, as the instance view just display the names...
To delete the deallocated VMs' disks:
((Get-AzureRmVM -ResourceGroupName $ResourceGroupName) foreach-object{Get-AzureRmVM -Name $.Name -ResourceGroupName $ResourceGroupName -Status} where-Object {$.Statuses.Code -eq 'PowerState/deallocated' }) foreach-object{ Get-AzureRmVM -ResourceGroupName $ResourceGroupName -Name $.name} %{ Remove-AzureStorageBlob -Blob $.StorageProfile.OsDisk.Vhd.Uri.Split('/')[-1] -Container $_.StorageProfile.OsDisk.Vhd.Uri.Split('/')[-2] -Force}
Looks horrible...

@ShabuddinKhan You're missing a _ from '$_` in the command you pasted.

We explored spitting out statuses on our end but quickly realized there is a chance users might hit the API throttling limits because you need to make an instance view API call for each VM in your subscription. Say if you have 5000 VMs in your subscription and you run the Get-AzureRmVm 3 or more times within an hour, you are very likely to hit the throttling limits.

$ResourceGroupName='GSRG'
$Name='*'

Get-AzureRmVM -ResourceGroupName $ResourceGroupName
Get-AzureRmVM -Status
Select-Object -Property Name, Statuses
Where-Object {$.Name -like $Name}
ForEach-Object {
$VMName = $.Name
$.Statuses
Where-Object {$.Code -like 'PowerState/*'}
ForEach-Object {
New-Object -TypeName psobject -Property @{
Name = $VMName
Status = $_.DisplayStatus
}
}
}

Another one-liner I use frequently to show me Resource Group, VM Name, and current status:

I think this will accomplish the same thing as above:
Get-AzureRmVM -Status Select ResourceGroupName, Name, PowerState

@singhkays I do not understand why this issue was closed. At a minimum the powershell team could open a issue with the compute API team then track this once the ARM api is fixed.

@erichexter It was closed because the OPs question was resolved. However, since then PowerShell now allows you to do Get-AzureRmVM -Status to get status of all VMs in your sub. NOTE: Keep in mind that this is still calling the LIST API for ALL VMs + GET API for each VM so there could be a throttling if your sub has a lot of VMs.

@singhkays thankyou.. your response really helped me today :)

It is painful to duplicate Get-AzureRmVm two times. It would be good to have it in the vm object