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Virtual Machine Scale Set VMs - Reimage All

Service:
Compute
API Version:
2026-03-01

Allows you to re-image all the disks ( including data disks ) in the a VM scale set instance. This operation is only supported for managed disks.

POST https://management.azure.com/subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/resourceGroups/{resourceGroupName}/providers/Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachineScaleSets/{vmScaleSetName}/virtualMachines/{instanceId}/reimageall?api-version=2026-03-01

URI Parameters

Name In Required Type Description
instanceId
 path True

string

The instance ID of the virtual machine.
resourceGroupName
 path True

string

minLength: 1
maxLength: 90

The name of the resource group. The name is case insensitive.
subscriptionId
 path True

string

minLength: 1

The ID of the target subscription.
vmScaleSetName
 path True

string

The name of the VM scale set.
api-version
 query True

string

minLength: 1

The API version to use for this operation.

Responses

Name Type Description
200 OK

The request has succeeded.
202 Accepted

Resource operation accepted.

Headers

  • Location: string
  • Retry-After: integer
Other Status Codes

CloudError

An unexpected error response.

Security

azure_auth

Azure Active Directory OAuth2 Flow.

Type: oauth2
Flow: implicit
Authorization URL: https://login.microsoftonline.com/common/oauth2/authorize

Scopes

Name Description
user_impersonation impersonate your user account

Examples

VirtualMachineScaleSetVM_ReimageAll_MaximumSet_Gen
VirtualMachineScaleSetVM_ReimageAll_MinimumSet_Gen

VirtualMachineScaleSetVM_ReimageAll_MaximumSet_Gen

Sample request

POST https://management.azure.com/subscriptions/{subscription-id}/resourceGroups/rgcompute/providers/Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachineScaleSets/aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa/virtualMachines/aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa/reimageall?api-version=2026-03-01

Sample response

Status code:
200
Status code:
202 
location: https://foo.com/operationstatus

VirtualMachineScaleSetVM_ReimageAll_MinimumSet_Gen

Sample request

POST https://management.azure.com/subscriptions/{subscription-id}/resourceGroups/rgcompute/providers/Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachineScaleSets/aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa/virtualMachines/aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa/reimageall?api-version=2026-03-01

Sample response

Status code:
200
Status code:
202 
location: https://foo.com/operationstatus

Definitions

Name Description
ApiError

Api error.
ApiErrorBase

Api error base.
CloudError

An error response from the Compute service.
InnerError

Inner error details.

ApiError

Object

Api error.

Name Type Description
code

string

The error code.
details

ApiErrorBase[]

The Api error details
innererror

InnerError

The Api inner error
message

string

The error message.
target

string

The target of the particular error.

ApiErrorBase

Object

Api error base.

Name Type Description
code

string

The error code.
message

string

The error message.
target

string

The target of the particular error.

CloudError

Object

An error response from the Compute service.

Name Type Description
error

ApiError

Api error.

InnerError

Object

Inner error details.

Name Type Description
errordetail

string

The internal error message or exception dump.
exceptiontype

string

The exception type.