Resources for Intel® Virtual RAID on CPU (Intel® VROC)
Resources for Intel® Virtual RAID on CPU (Intel® VROC)
Resources for Intel® Virtual RAID on CPU (Intel® VROC)
Category:Product Information & DocumentationArticle ID:000024550Environment:Intel® VROCDate:2/28/25
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.
For VMware* ESXi* 9.0 and later, only an inbox Intel® VROC driver is available. Async/add-in drivers are no longer provided. Additionally, the Intel® VROC and LED Management Tool for VMware ESXi** is discontinued for VMware* ESXi* 9.0 and later.
