Users Guide

Chapter 1: Dell Technologies Boot Optimized Storage Solution-S2................................................ 5
Features of BOSS-S2 card................................................................................................................................................5
Technical specifications of BOSS-S2 card....................................................................................................................6
Supported M.2 drives of BOSS-S2 card........................................................................................................................ 7
PowerEdge systems supported by BOSS-S2 ..............................................................................................................8
Operating systems supported by BOSS-S2.................................................................................................................. 8
Chapter 2: Applications supported by BOSS-S2............................................................................ 9
Unified Extensible Firmware Interface RAID Configuration Utility.......................................................................... 9
Dell OpenManage Storage Management....................................................................................................................... 9
BOSS-S2 Command Line Interface Utility.....................................................................................................................9
The Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller and Lifecycle Controller............................................................. 10
Chapter 3: Update the BOSS-S2 firmware version........................................................................11
Update BOSS-S2 using Windows update packages.................................................................................................. 11
Update BOSS-S2 using Linux.......................................................................................................................................... 11
Update BOSS-S2 using iDRAC....................................................................................................................................... 12
Update BOSS-S2 using Lifecycle Controller............................................................................................................... 12
Chapter 4: Features of BOSS-S2..................................................................................................14
Hot–plugging M.2 drives in PowerEdge systems...................................................................................................... 14
Identify M.2 drives by using LEDs..................................................................................................................................14
Controlled firmware update.............................................................................................................................................14
Foreign import of VDs.......................................................................................................................................................15
Detect a drive failure using SMART feature............................................................................................................... 15
Auto–rebuild a degraded drive....................................................................................................................................... 15
Support of non–RAID drives........................................................................................................................................... 15
TRIM feature on SSDs...................................................................................................................................................... 16
Erase physical disk data....................................................................................................................................................16
Chapter 5: Install and remove a BOSS-S2 card.............................................................................17
Safety instructions.............................................................................................................................................................17
Before working inside your system................................................................................................................................ 17
After working inside your system...................................................................................................................................18
Remove the BOSS-S2 module........................................................................................................................................18
Install the BOSS-S2 module............................................................................................................................................23
Chapter 6: Driver support for BOSS-S2.......................................................................................28
Chapter 7: BOSS-S2 UEFI configuration utility............................................................................29
Enter the BOSS-S2 UEFI configuration utility........................................................................................................... 29
Exit the BOSS-S2 UEFI configuration utility.............................................................................................................. 29
Navigate to BOSS-S2 configuration utility................................................................................................................. 30
Physical or virtual disk information............................................................................................................................... 30
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