With the new VM sizes in Azure you may want to change the Size as you get more VM for less money. but remember the VM will restart! so better fi
But changing the VM by hand is a time consuming job So Powershell could be very handy in this case. you can change the Vm size easily with a one-liner
So first we need to login into the azure Subscription.
Login-AzureRmAccount
If you have multiple Subscriptions you need to select the right subscription.
$subscrip=Get-AzureRmSubscription | Out-GridView -OutputMode Single -Title ‘Please select a Azure Subscription.’
Select-AzureRmSubscription -TenantId $subscrip.TenantId
Get-AzureRmVM
$vm = Get-AzureRmVM -VMName MVPCB10 -ResourceGroupName RSG-VNET
$vm.HardwareProfile.VmSize = "Standard_D2_v3"
Update-AzureRmVM -VM $vm -ResourceGroupName RSG-VNET
Ok this seems nice but I have 50 VM’s that I like to change
#set new Size to VM
1..5 | % {
$vm = Get-AzureRmVM -ResourceGroupName RSG-VNET -VMName MVPCB1$_
$vm.HardwareProfile.VmSize = "Standard_D13_v2_Promo"
Update-AzureRmVM -VM $vm -ResourceGroupName RSG-VNET
}
Better But if you used random names then the above will not really help you in quick size changing. The next step would be selecting all the VM that needs to be changed and selecting a Size for changing. That sounds great but how to start ?
With the Out-GridView you can do great things. to bad that the price is not available in this.
The script would be like this :
$VMList = Get-AzureRmVm | Out-GridView -OutputMode Multiple -Title ‘Please select an Azure Virtual Machine to resize.’;
$TargetSize = Get-AzureRmVmSize -Location westeurope | Out-GridView -OutputMode Single -Title ‘Please select a target Azure Virtual Machine size.’;
foreach ($VM in $VMList) {
Write-output "Resizing Microsoft Azure Virtual Machine" $VM.Name "in Resource Group" $VM.ResourceGroupName "to size" $TargetSize
Update-AzureRmVm -VM $VM -ResourceGroupName $VM.ResourceGroupName -Verbose
}
Get-AzureRmVm
After this the VM’s are all changed in a other Size.
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