Intel® Virtual RAID on CPU (Intel® VROC) VMD NVMe* RAID F6 Drivers

The Intel® VROC production package for Windows* is broken into Pre-OS components, F6 (or Load Driver) components, an operating system installer (Intel® VROC Installation Utility) and a Command Line Interface (CLI) component (Intel® VROC CLI Utility). Whereas the operating system installer and the CLI components are common for all Intel® VROC sub-products, there are specific Pre-OS and F6 components for the Intel® VROC (VMD NVMe* RAID) environment.

The F6 driver components for the Intel® VROC (VMD NVMe* RAID) environment are described below. To learn about the F6 driver components for Intel® VROC (SATA RAID), refer to Intel® Virtual RAID on CPU (Intel® VROC) SATA RAID F6 Drivers.

The Intel® VROC package includes two sets of individual device drivers for the Intel® Volume Management Device (Intel® VMD) controller. Windows* operating systems will support the use of any of these device drivers:

• The first set is intended to support the manual update or installation of the Intel® VROC (VMD NVMe* RAID) device driver from within an operational Windows* operating system environment. This installation process utilizes the Device Manager driver update process and is intended to support those configurations that may not have an Intel® VROC Graphical User Interface (GUI) installed. These device drivers are located under the F6-drivers directory in the release package and are the following:
  • iaVROC.free.winX.64bit.AA.BB.CC.DDDD: Used for installing Intel® VROC (VMD NVMe* RAID) on all supported Windows* operating systems.
• The second set of drivers is intended to support the installation of a supported Windows* operating system. Windows* does not contain inbox Intel® VROC (VMD NVMe* RAID) drivers. As a result, installing a supported Windows* operating system requires the use of the F6 drivers (also known as the “Load Driver” option). The Intel® VROC F6 drivers are located in the VROC_AA.BB.CC.DDDD_F6-drivers directory, at the same directory level as those previously mentioned.