Intel® Virtual RAID on CPU (Intel® VROC) Configuration Guide for the Self-Encrypting Drive (SED) Feature

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.

Self-Encrypting Drive (SED) is a storage device that integrates encryption of user data at rest. All user data written to the storage device is encrypted by specialized hardware implemented inside the storage device controller. The data is decrypted as it is read.

The following configuration guide describes the operations of the Intel® VROC SED feature.

Intel® VROC Configuration Guide for the SED Feature (PDF)
Revision: 1.1
Size: 2.86 MB
Date: March 2024