metalcloud-cli vm start

Power on a virtual machine

Synopsis

Start (power on) a virtual machine. The VM will boot up and become available for connections. The operation is asynchronous - the command returns immediately while the VM powers on in the background.

Arguments: vm_id Required. The unique identifier of the virtual machine to start.

Prerequisites:

  • VM must be in ‘stopped’ or ‘suspended’ state

  • Valid VM configuration must exist

  • Sufficient infrastructure resources must be available

Examples:

Start a VM by ID

metalcloud-cli vm start 12345

Start multiple VMs (using shell loops)

for vm in 12345 12346 12347; do metalcloud-cli vm start $vm; done

metalcloud-cli vm start vm_id [flags]

Options

  -h, --help   help for start

Options inherited from parent commands

  -k, --api_key string         MetalCloud API key
  -c, --config string          Config file path
  -d, --debug                  Set to enable debug logging
  -e, --endpoint string        MetalCloud API endpoint
  -f, --format string          Output format. Supported values are 'text','csv','md','json','yaml'. (default "text")
  -i, --insecure_skip_verify   Set to allow insecure transport
  -l, --log_file string        Log file path
  -v, --verbosity string       Log level verbosity (default "INFO")

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