Intel® Virtual RAID on CPU (Intel® VROC) Processors 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 the 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.

Intel® VROC has a hardware dependency on the Intel® Xeon® feature Intel® VMD. Therefore, Intel® VROC is only supported on CPUs with Intel® VMD technology. The below set of Intel® Xeon® processor families support Intel® VROC and Intel® VMD. Keep in mind the following considerations while navigating through the supported processors list below.