On Tue, 23 Apr 2019 10:00:45 +0100 (BST) Nux! nux@li.nux.ro wrote:

Hi,

Has anyone had any experience with Intel Vroc[1]? I'm possibly having to deal with a new server with such technology and can't find much (real world) information about it. Looking at the specs it's basically a glorified fake raid which usually turns on my alarm bells. Has anyone done any testing, how does it compare with "real" raid or software raid?

Intel FAQ had the following nugget of info but I've yet to try it myself..

What is the difference between Intel® VROC and Linux* MD RAID? Intel® VROC for Linux* is built upon MD RAID, and the Intel VROC team has an MD RAID maintainer on the team. However, Intel VROC has the following extra features:

* Provides UEFI HII and UEFI Shell command line RAID management * Provides webpage-based, remote RAID management and RESTful APIs * Fully validated and supported with Purley platform and industry-select * SSDs Provides hotfix/patch to specific customer issue on supported OS

Seems a mess of licensing and enabling too :-(

Also seen this from HPE: http://www8.hp.com/h20195/v2/GetPDF.aspx/c05821090.pdf

And this from Intel: https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-xeon-processor-scalable-fami...

/Peter K