Should I use Intel VROC or a hardware RAID controller?
Intel VROC mirrors are unmonitored in standard out-of-band management platforms like BMC, IPMI, or iDRAC, leaving administrators blind if hardware components fail. This lack of visibility raises major concerns about where RAID configurations are stored if a motherboard or CPU goes down, pushing many to stick with dedicated hardware RAID.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
Found another way around this?
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- 1Staying with older hardware vendors despite dissatisfactionDid this help you?
- 2Insisting on using dedicated hardware RAID controllers and U.3 NVMe disks instead of VROCDid this help you?
- 3Using OS-based software RAID or PCI-E NVMe RAID cards holding M.2 mirrorsDid this help you?
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“We're fed up with HPE, for almost 15 years we've been installing ML350s and DL380s.”source ↗
“our first Lenovo project is in but I'm not too keen on using VROC. I've searched through the VROC topics and it sounded like something to stay away from.”source ↗
“When I asked Lenovo: what if the motherboard fails? What if a CPU needs replacement? Where is the RAID config stored?”source ↗
“The VROC mirror is NOT managed NOT MONITORED in the BMC/XClarity/IPMI/iDRAC/whatever you call it/out of band management platform.”source ↗
Where this came up
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