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User Guides for Intel® Virtual RAID on CPU (Intel® VROC)

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Content Type Product Information & Documentation

Article ID 000094833

Last Reviewed 09/19/2024

Intel® Virtual RAID on CPU (Intel® VROC) is an enterprise RAID solution that unleashes the performance of NVMe* SSDs. Intel® VROC is 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. NVMe SSDs are directly connected to the CPU, allowing the full performance potential of fast storage devices to be realized. 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.

The following user guides provide the information required to manage Intel® VROC RAID volumes in Windows*, Linux* and VMware* ESXi* environments, as well as the information required to setup specific Intel® VROC features.

What you should know about the Intel® VROC package

These user guides describe the generic Intel® VROC features and functionality. System vendors may customize the Intel® VROC package for their specific platforms. Refer to your OEM for a full list of available feature sets. If any of the information in these documents conflict with the support information provided by the platform OEM, the platform documentation and configurations take precedence.