User Guides for Intel® Virtual RAID on CPU (Intel® VROC)
Content Type: Product Information & Documentation | Article ID: 000094833 | Last Reviewed: 02/25/2025
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.
| What you should know about the Intel® VROC package | 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. Customers should always contact the place of purchase or the system/software manufacturer with support questions about their specific hardware or software configuration. See more information in Intel® Virtual RAID on CPU (Intel® VROC) Technical Support for End Customers. |
The following user guides describe the generic Intel® VROC features and functionality required to manage Intel® VROC RAID volumes in Windows*, Linux* and VMware* ESXi* environments, as well as the information required to set up specific Intel® VROC features.