Starting azure VM in parallel and validate after in PowerShell - azure

Context : I am automating starting of 3 Azure VM through a PowerShell script, and each VM is taking 4-5min to start. I want to run the start command parallel and after 5-6min verify them whether they are started.
function restartLoadAgents ($AzuresecretValue,$AzureApplicationID,$AzureObjectID,$AzureDirectoryID,$AzureUserName,$AzureSubscriptionID) {
$password = ConvertTo-SecureString $AzuresecretValue -AsPlainText -Force;
$LoadAgentResourceGroup = "test-performance-rg01";
#Connecting to the Azure VM using the Service Principle
$pscredential = New-Object -TypeName System.Management.Automation.PSCredential($AzureApplicationID, $password);
Connect-AzAccount -ServicePrincipal -Tenant $AzureDirectoryID -Credential $pscredential | Out-null;
#List all the Load Agents
$VMList = Get-AzVm -ResourceGroupName $LoadAgentResourceGroup -Status;
ForEach($VM in $VMList) {
#Skipping the Master Machine and DB machine
if ($VM.Name -eq "test-load-appmachine01" -or $VM.Name -eq "test-load-appmachine02") {
continue;
}
$VMLoadAgentStatus = (Get-AzVm -ResourceGroupName $LoadAgentResourceGroup -Name $VM.Name -status).Statuses
$CurrentLoadAgentRunningStatus = $VMLoadAgentStatus[1].DisplayStatus;
if($CurrentLoadAgentRunningStatus -match "deallocated" -or $CurrentLoadAgentRunningStatus -match "VM deallocated"){
Start-AzVM -ResourceGroupName $LoadAgentResourceGroup -Name $VM.Name | Out-null
commandVerifier;
checkVMStatus($VM.Name);
}
else {
Write-Host $VM.Name " Current State is "$CurrentLoadAgentRunningStatus;
}
}
}
function commandVerifier() {
if ($?){
Write-Host "Successfully Started "$VM.Name;
}
else {
Write-Host "Start Unsuccessful "$VM.Name;
}
}
function checkVMStatus($VM_NAME) {
$VMLoadAgentStatus = (Get-AzVm -ResourceGroupName $LoadAgentResourceGroup -Name $$VM_NAME -status).Statuses
$VMRunningStatusAfterTriggered = $VMLoadAgentStatus[1].DisplayStatus;
if($VMRunningStatusAfterTriggered -eq "running" -or $VMRunningStatusAfterTriggered -eq "VM running"){
Write-Host "Successfully Started VM"
}
else{
Write-Host "Something went with starting VM and current status is"$VMRunningStatusAfterTriggered
}
}
function getServicePrincipleDetails () {
$AzuresecretValue = "<secretValue>";
$AzureApplicationID = "<app_id>";
$AzureObjectID = "<obj_id>";
$AzureDirectoryID = "<dir_id>";
$AzureUserName = "SVCUSER";
$AzureSubscriptionID = "<sub_id>";
restartLoadAgents $AzuresecretValue $AzureApplicationID $AzureObjectID $AzureDirectoryID $AzureUserName $AzureSubscriptionID
}
getServicePrincipleDetails
There are 5 VM in total and first two need not to be stopped or started. test-load-appmachine03,test-load-appmachine04 & test-load-appmachine05 are the target VM and I want to start them parallelly and check after.

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Am using this script, but its gathering all the vms and stopping it one by one even when the VM is already in stopped state
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Based on the above shared requirement , we have modified the PowerShell script to check the virtual machines status ( whether it is running or not ), if virtual Machine is running you need to stop it using stop-Azvm cmdlet.
Checked the below script(while testing we passed resource group flag to the Get-Azvm ) in our local environment which is working fine.
$vm = Get-Azvm -Status
foreach($vms in $vm)
{
$statuscheck = Get-AzVM -ResourceGroupName $vms.ResourceGroupName -Name $vms.Name -Status
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{
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Result:

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