---
name: "azure-nvme-id"
section: "8"
platform: "linux"
package: "azure-vm-utils"
version: "0.6.0-2"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/azure-nvme-id"
---

# azure-nvme-id(8)

identify Azure NVMe devices

## NAME

azure-nvme-id - identify Azure NVMe devices

## SYNOPSIS

**azure-nvme-id** \[--debug\] \[--format {plain\|json}\] \[--help \| --version \| --udev\]

## DESCRIPTION

**azure-nvme-id** provides identification metadata in the response to Identify Namespace command for some models of NVMe devices. This is found in vendor-specific (vs) field which contains various identification details with a comma-separated, key=value format.

**azure-nvme-id** combines this metadata with the make and model of NVMe device namespaces to identify a device by type, name, index, etc. Output options are plain or json.

To suppoort udev rules, --udev option will invoke **azure-nvme-id** in udev mode.

## OPTIONS

- **--debug**

  Debug mode with additional logging.

- **--format {plain\|json}**

  Output format, default is plain.

- **--help**

  Show usage information and exit.

- **--udev**

  Run in udev mode, printing a set of `<key>=<value>` variables consumed by udev rules. Requires DEVNAME to be set in environment.

- **--version**

  Show version information and exit.

## EXAMPLES

Identify NVMe namespaces:

-

  ```
  $ sudo azure-nvme-id
  /dev/nvme0n1:
  /dev/nvme1n1: type=local,index=1,name=nvme-110G-1
  ```

Parse device identifiers for udev consumption:

-

  ```
  $ sudo env DEVNAME=/dev/nvme1n1 azure-nvme-id --udev
  AZURE_DISK_VS=type=local,index=1,name=nvme-110G-1
  AZURE_DISK_TYPE=local
  AZURE_DISK_INDEX=1
  AZURE_DISK_NAME=nvme-110G-1
  ```

Check `azure-nvme-id` version:

-

  ```
  $ azure-nvme-id --version
  azure-nvme-id 0.1.2
  ```

## SEE ALSO

Source and documentation available at: \<https://github.com/Azure/azure-vm-utils\>