New Features Introduced with the Intel® Virtual RAID on CPU (Intel® VROC) 9.0 Release for Windows*

The following information lists the new features introduced with the Intel® VROC 9.0 release for Windows*. To learn about the latest updates of Intel® VROC for Windows*, refer to the Intel® Virtual RAID on CPU (Intel® VROC) Release Notes for Windows*.

Added SATA RAID Support on Montage IOH

Intel® VROC supports up to three IOH adapters but only one at a time. There is currently no support for splitting the drivers among more than one, so users can have up to three adapters connected but we have drivers only for one of them and for the three SATA controllers (SATA, sSATA and tSATA).

Out-of-Band (OOB) for NVMe* Drives behind Intel® Volume Management Device (Intel® VMD) via MCTP

The manageability feature for Intel® VMD owned NVMe* devices using the NVMe* Management Interface (NVMe-MI) over Management Component Transport Protocol (MCTP) over PCIe Vendor Defined Messages (VDM) enables robust out-of-band management. The feature allows for efficient monitoring, configuration, and control of NVMe* devices via a standardized communication protocol that operates independently of the host operating system.

Native PCIe Enclosure Management (NPEM) Support for CPU-Attached Drives

The addition of NPEM support allows users to use PCIe port standard bits to control LED blinking for each drive port of a system. This is currently a platform specific feature for Granite Rapids (GNR) based systems.