Function

This API is used to start ECSs in a batch based on specified ECS IDs. A maximum of 1000 ECSs can be started at a time.

URI

POST /v1/{project_id}/cloudservers/action

Table 1 describes the parameters in the URI.

**Table 1** Parameter description
Parameter	Mandatory	Description
project_id	Yes	Specifies the project ID.

Request

**Table 2** Request parameters
Parameter	Mandatory	Type	Description
os-start	Yes	Object	Specifies the operation to start the ECS. For details, see Table 3.

**Table 3** **os-start** field description
Parameter	Mandatory	Type	Description
servers	Yes	Array of objects	Specifies ECS IDs. For details, see Table 4.

**Table 4** **servers** field description
Parameter	Mandatory	Type	Description
id	Yes	String	Specifies the ECS ID.

Response

See Responses (Task).

Example Request

In the request, the parameters to start ECSs must be sent with field os-start. For details, see the example request.

POST https://{endpoint}/v1/{project_id}/cloudservers/action

{
    "os-start": {
        "servers": [
            {
                "id": "616fb98f-46ca-475e-917e-2563e5a8cd19"
            },
            {
                "id": "726fb98f-46ca-475e-917e-2563e5a8cd20"
            }
        ]
    }
}

Example Response

None

Returned Values

See Returned Values for General Requests.

Error Codes

See Error Codes.

Starting ECSs in a Batch