INTEL VIRTUAL RAID ON CPU - INTEL SSD ONLY, NVMe RAID 0/1/5/10

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. Intel® VMD, NVMe SSDs are directly connected to the CPU, allowing the full performance potential of fast storage devices, such Intel® Optane™ SSDs, 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.

Intel® VROC is a complete RAID solution, including:

• High performance due to direct connect of SSDs

• Platform integrated storage controller functions provided by Intel® VMD

• Boot and Data RAID

• Scalable to many devices and RAID arrays

• Support for SATA, Intel® VMD NVMe RAID, and non-Intel® VMD NVMe RAID