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Intel® Virtual RAID on CPU (Intel® VROC)

Intel® VROC is an enterprise RAID solution that unleashes the performance of NVMe SSDs, enabled by a feature in Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors called Intel® Volume Management Device (Intel® VMD), an integrated controller inside the CPU PCIe root complex. Intel® VROC enables these benefits without the complexity, cost, and power consumption of traditional hardware RAID host bus adapter (HBA) cards placed between the drives and the CPU.

Intel® VROC Is a Complete RAID Solution, Including:

  • High performance due to direct connect of SSDs
  • Platform integrated storage controller functions provided by Intel® VMD
  • Boot and Data RAID
  • Scalable to many devices and RAID arrays
  • Support for SATA and NVMe RAID arrays

Read the product brief

Powered by Intel® Xeon® Processors

As processing power continues to scale, high-bandwidth access to low-latency storage is critical to realizing the true potential of the CPU. Intel® VMD and Intel® VROC are features of Intel® Xeon® processors that enable a seamless transition to fast NVMe storage to maximize CPU access to data, without a disruption in storage functionality.

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Performance Highlights

Intel® VROC is an integrated RAID solution that scales with NVMe SSDs to deliver extraordinary performance, over 6.4M IOPS. Intel® VROC performance is consistently better than RAID HBA, delivering up to 165% more IOPS, up to 62% lower latency and up to 155% better power efficiency.1

Intel® VROC compared to RAID HBA

Performance

165%

increase

Latency

62%

reduction

Power Efficiency

155%

better

Performance

165%

increase

Latency

62%

reduction

Power Efficiency

155%

better

Success Stories

Read along with some of our best success stories with customers.

NetEase Games Reduces Costs and Improves Efficiency with Intel® VROC

When compared with traditional solutions, Intel® VROC provides the ability to use NVMe drives to their full potential, fewer hardware dependency, bootable RAID, and hot insert/surprise removal. Affordable, efficient, and simple, Intel® VROC is ideal for building RAID solutions in modern cloud and data centers.

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FinTech Organizations Speed Ahead with Jabil and Intel

A leading hedge fund firm engaged Jabil’s Design-to-Dust™ services to achieve the required performance and server latency on an accelerated schedule. Jabil brought in its partner, Intel, and together the teams developed a custom solution based on 5th Gen Intel® Xeon® processors and Intel® VROC.

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AT&T Disrupts the Telecom Market with an Innovative, Open Network Equipment Model

AT&T incorporates Intel® Virtual RAID on CPU (Intel® VROC), an integrated RAID solution, for its 100/400 Gb large Ethernet multiplexer (EMUX) and core router V3, built on its open network equipment model.

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Features

Isolate error handling

Isolate Error Handling

Intel® VMD isolates SSD error and event handling from the operating system to help reduce system crashes and reboots.

Enterprise reliability

Enterprise Reliability

Increased protection from data loss and corruption in various failure scenarios such as unexpected power loss, even when a volume is degraded.

Extended management tools

Extended Management Tools

Pre-OS and OS management includes HII, CLI, email alerts, and a Windows GUI, all supporting NVMe and SATA controls.

Boot RAID

Boot RAID

Redundancy for OS images directly off the CPU with pre-OS configuration options for platform set-up.

High performance storage

High Performance Storage

Connect NVMe SSDs directly to the CPU for full bandwidth storage connections.

Out of band management

Out Of Band Management

Retrieve drive inventory, monitor drive/RAID volume state and trigger RAID create/delete and LED management.

High performance storage

SED Key Management

Secure sensitive data volumes with Self Encrypting Drives and boot from a RAID volume or a single drive.

Product and Performance Information

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For more information see Claim 22 https://edc.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/performance/benchmarks/intel-xeon-scalable-processors/