Intel® Virtual Raid On Chip (Intel® Vroc) For Nvme; Figure 46. Intel® Vmd Support Enabled In Bios Setup; Figure 47. Intel® Vroc Basic Architecture Overview - Intel R1000WF Technical Product Specification

Intel® Server System R1000WF Product Family Technical Product Specification
6.4.3 Intel® Virtual RAID on Chip (Intel® VROC) for NVMe*
Intel VROC enables NVMe boot on RAID and volume management (Intel RSTe 5.0 + Intel VMD)
Intel VROC supports the following:
I/O processor with controller (ROC) and DRAM.
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No need for battery backup / RAID maintenance free backup unit.
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• Protected write back cache – software and hardware that allows recovery from a double fault.
Isolated storage devices from OS for error handling.
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Protected R5 data from OS crash.
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• Boot from RAID volumes based on NVMe SSDs within a single Intel VMD domain.
NVMe SSD hot plug and surprise removal on CPU PCIe lanes.
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Figure 46. Intel® VMD support enabled in BIOS setup
Figure 47. Intel® VROC basic architecture overview
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