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garymansell
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Nov 12, 2020
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Get-AzWvdSessionHost returns Status of "Shutdown" instead of "Unavailable" when VM's are powered off

Why do Session Host VM's show the status of "Shutdown" when they are powered off instead of "Unavailable"?   I have been successfully utilizing an auto-scaling script that powers on/off VM's based ...
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    TravisRoberts
    Nov 15, 2020

    garymansell I modified the script to include the status of "Unavailable" and "Shutdown" to include VM's in the start function.  Testing shows it's now starting VM's in either state.

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Hussayn
Copper Contributor
Nov 13, 2020

I've also noticed something similar in the last week when I added a vm to an existing hostpool, the new vm has a shutdown state not the regular unavailable state when its deallocated by the scaling script.

However I added yet another vm and that shows the regular unavailable status when the vm gets deallocated by the scaling script. Not really sure why

 

 

In my case the scaling script can power on and power off the all the vms.

I am curious what the difference is between the 'Shutdown' status and 'Unavailable' status as there is no detail on the docs page https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/desktopvirtualization/sessionhosts/get#status.

 

Perhaps Christiaan_Brinkhoff or AzureAcademy can shed some light?

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