I'm trying to create Azure VMs simultaneously from a list. Maybe there is a better way to do this, but I'm trying to do this using a foreach loop and PowerShell jobs. I keep running into issues each way I try. If I run the script without jobs, it works
but I have to wait for each VM to be created before the next one. I'd like to have all VMs created at the same time if possible.
Here's what I have so far:
$func = {
$VMLocalAdminUser = "User"
$VMLocalAdminSecurePassword = ConvertTo-SecureString "PasswordWhatever" -AsPlainText -Force
$Credential = New-Object System.Management.Automation.PSCredential ($VMLocalAdminUser, $VMLocalAdminSecurePassword)
#using this below function to generate a unique name for each VM. I'm sure there's a better way for this.
function get-randomstring {
[CmdletBinding()]
param ( [int]$length)
$rca = 1..$length | foreach { $ran = Get-Random -Minimum 97 -Maximum 123
[char][byte]$ran }
$rca -join ''
}
}
foreach ($image in $imagelist)
{
$scriptBlock = {
New-AzureRmVm -Credential $Credential -ResourceGroupName "RG1445" -Name (get-randomstring -length 10).ToUpper -ImageName $image -Location "West US 2" -Size "Standard_DS2_v2" -VirtualNetworkName "ImageMaker" -SubnetName "ImageMakerSubnet" -OpenPorts 3389
}
}
Start-Job -InitializationScript $func -ScriptBlock $scriptBlock
What I get is:
PS C:\ Get-Job | Receive-Job
WARNING: New-AzureRmVM: A property of the output of this cmdlet will change in an upcoming breaking change release. The StorageAccountType property for a DataDisk will return Standard_LRS and Premium_LRS
Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
+ CategoryInfo : CloseError: (:) [New-AzureRmVM], NullReferenceException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : Microsoft.Azure.Commands.Compute.NewAzureVMCommand
+ PSComputerName : localhost
I also tried putting -AsJob on the end of the New-AzureRmVm, but end up with the same error. I also tried adding Start-Job to the front of the command within the foreach loop and that didn't work either.
Maybe there's a better way to go about all of this. Thanks so much for your help!
