Intel® Virtual RAID on CPU (Intel® VROC) Platforms and Chipsets Support List

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 supported platforms and chipsets by Intel® VROC are shown in the following tables. Keep in mind the following considerations while navigating through the supported platforms and chipsets list below.

Intel® Platform Support Matrix

¹ The Birch Stream platform uses a PCH removal/chipset-less architecture. The SATA RAID solutions become an optional adding a supporting item.

Intel® VROC (VMD NVMe* RAID) Platform Support Matrix

¹ Intel® VROC (VMD NVMe* RAID) support on Intel® X299 High-End Desktop (HEDT) platforms is restricted to Intel® NVMe* SSDs only. This is a platform limitation. As a result, when Intel® VROC is installed onto an Intel® X299 High-End Desktop (HEDT) platform, the user will only see Intel® NVMe* SSDs plugged into the platform. Using Intel® VROC on Intel® X299 High-End Desktop (HEDT) platforms is not recommended. See details in Announcement: Intel® Virtual RAID on CPU (Intel® VROC) Support on X299 Platforms.
² Intel® VROC (Non-VMD NVMe* RAID) is no longer included in the Intel® VROC software package for Windows*. If support for this sub-product is required, use the Intel® VROC 7.x release family. See details in Announcement: Intel® Rapid Storage Technology Enterprise (Intel® RSTe) and Intel® Virtual RAID on CPU (Intel® VROC) Consolidation.

Intel® VROC (SATA RAID) Platform Support Matrix

Intel® VROC Feature Support Matrix

¹ The Birch Stream platform uses a PCH removal/chipset-less architecture. The SATA RAID solutions become an optional adding a supporting item.
² The 3rd party NVMe* drives should pass the Intel® VROC validation process. See the supported list in Intel® Virtual RAID on CPU (Intel® VROC) NVMe* Drives Support List.

Intel® VROC Platform Backward Compatible Matrix

¹ Each platform generation supported by Intel® VROC (target) and Intel® VROC + 1 and Intel® VROC + 2 (backward compatibility, tested/validated). Intel® VROC + 3 is not validated.