Intel® Virtual RAID on CPU (Intel® VROC) Configuration Guide for VMware* ESXi* Linux* Virtual Machines Direct Assign
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.
The following configuration guide provides the information required to setup a Red Hat Enterprise Linux* (RHEL) Virtual Machine (VM) drive assignment using Direct Assign (DA) in VMware* ESXi*.
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Intel® Volume Management Device (Intel® VMD) Driver Configuration Guide for VMware* ESXi* RHEL VM Direct Assign (PDF) 
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Date: March 2024