Designed for NVMe-based SSDs in HP's Z4, Z6, and Z8 G4 Workstations running Windows 7 or 10, and Xeon Skylake-W or Skylake-SP processors, this standard version of the Intel VROC for NVMe from HP is an enterprise RAID storage solution that supports RAID 0, 1, and 10 and lets users manage RAID volumes with NVMe SSDs that are directly connected to CPU PCIe lanes, without using a host bus adapter (HBA). Short for Virtual RAID on CPU, the Intel VROC delivers faster performance without the complexity and power of a traditional Hardware RAID HBA.
General Features
No need for battery backup / RAID maintenance free backup unit
Protected write back cache - software and hardware that allows recovery from a double fault
Isolated storage devices from OS for error handling
Boot from RAID volumes based on NVMe SSDs within a single Intel VMD domain
3 VMD domains per CPU provide for boot from one domain and data RAID spanning across the other 2 domains
RAID / storage management using representational state transfer (RESTful) application programming interfaces (APIs)
Graphical user interface (GUI) for Linux
4K native NVMe SSD support
Key Feature List for Workstations
Boot RAID (0, 1, and 10) on CPU-attached NVMe RAID volume
Spanning data RAID volumes across VMD domains
For NVMe RAID, Intel VROC is architected to use Intel VMD to provide the following features that Intel RSTe legacy NVMe RAID does not have:
Bootable RAID Support for HP-qualified SSDs, as well as Intel SSDs
NVMe RAID Features
CPU attached NVMe SSD - high perf
Boot on RAID volume
Third party vendor SSD support
Intel RSTe 5.0 RAID 0, 1, and 10
Hot plug / surprise removal (2.5" SSD form factor only; Add-in card form factor not supported)
Enclosure LED management
UPC: 192018660649