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Expand Up @@ -96,3 +96,22 @@ To create VMs with an NVMe interface, it's essential to choose one of the [suppo
1. Verify that the feature is enabled by going to the **Review and Create** tab and confirming that the **Disk controller type** value is **NVMe**.

:::image type="content" source="./media/enable-nvme/azure-portal-3.png" alt-text="Screenshot of the area for reviewing and verifying advanced features for a virtual machine, including the NVMe feature.":::
#### FAQs

- What are ASAP VMs?

ASAP stands for Azure Storage Acceleration Platform, which is part of the Overlake project to provide a hardware-accelerated VM storage interface for high performance and low latency direct access.

- What is NVMe?

A unified storage interface presented to a VM as a virtual function.

- How can we identify NVMe disks on a Windows VM?
Open Azure PowerShell and use the following command:
<img width="853" height="269" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/227d1688-21c2-48af-8f16-809eda2357cd" />

- wmic diskdrive get model,scsilogicalunit
Output of above command

Important Note:
ASAP-attached disks are presented in the guest with the model string Virtual_Disk NVME Premium. The SCSI logical unit has the value for the portal-visible LUN ID incremented by 1.