Intel® Virtual RAID on CPU (Intel® VROC) User Guide for Red Hat Enterprise Linux* (RHEL)
Content Type: Install & Setup | Article ID: 000096169 | Last Reviewed: 02/27/2025
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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 following user guide provides the steps for users to set up Intel® VROC in Red Hat Enterprise Linux* (RHEL). This user guide is based on the Intel® Virtual RAID on CPU (Intel® VROC) User Guide for Linux*.
| What you should know about the Intel® VROC package |
| System vendors may customize the Intel® VROC package for their specific platforms. Reference your OEM for a full list of available feature sets. If any of the information in this document conflicts with the support information provided by the platform OEM, the platform documentation and configurations take precedence. |
Intel® Virtual RAID on CPU (Intel® VROC) User Guide for Red Hat Enterprise Linux* (RHEL) (PDF) 
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Date: July 2024