New Features Introduced with the Intel® Virtual RAID on CPU (Intel® VROC) 8.2 Release for Windows*

The following information lists the new features introduced with the Intel® VROC 8.2 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*.

Pre-Boot DMA Protection Enablement with Intel® VROC

A security feature limitation occurred when pre-boot DMA protection was enabled in BIOS while also Intel® VMD/VROC was enabled. This limitation no longer persists in the Intel® VROC 8.2.0.1981 release version. Both, pre-boot DMA and Intel® VROC, can be enabled at the same time without error messages or interruptions occurring.

NVMe* Secure Erase Via Out-of-Band (OOB) Support

Users will be able to erase all data permanently off NVMe* SSDs (secure erase) through OOB. When the action of secure erase is triggered on a drive through the OOB service, this drive during the sanitize process will change its state to Standby within the Intel® VROC Graphical User Interface (GUI) environment.

NVMe* Pass-Thru PPI and Storage Security Command PPI Support in Intel® VROC

When implementing a password security protection feature on NVMe* drives, SSCP provides the required command set for this feature. This protocol will be used not only in the DXE phase, but also in the PEI phase (DXE and PEI are all required for S0, S3 and S4, power on, hibernation, and resume).

Intel® VROC Pre-EFI Initialization Module (PEIM) Support (Update)

The limitation listed in the New Features Introduced with the Intel® Virtual RAID on CPU (Intel® VROC) 8.0 Release for Windows* has been implemented. Multiple Intel® Volume Management Device (Intel® VMD) controllers are supported.