Owners Manual
BOSS card
Introduction to BOSS card
BOSS is a simple RAID solution card designed specically for booting a system's operating system. The card supports up to two 6 Gbps M.
2 SATA drives. The BOSS adapter card has a x8 connector using PCIe gen 2.0 x2 lanes, available only in the low-prole and half-height
form factor. The BOSS modular card has a dedicated slot in sled servers.
NOTE: There are no status LEDs on the BOSS card.
Figure 44. Features of BOSS card
1 BOSS card
2 M.2 SATA drive connector
3 80 mm M.2 SATA drive
Supported operating systems
The BOSS card supports the following minimum supported versions of operating systems:
• Microsoft Windows Server 2016
• VMware ESXi 6.0 Update 3
• VMware ESXi 6.5
NOTE
: For the latest list of supported operating systems and driver installation instructions, see the system documentation at
Dell.com/operatingsystemmanuals. For specic operating system service pack requirements, see the Drivers and Downloads
section at Dell.com/support/manuals.
Supported XC Series Appliance and XC Core System
The following XC Series Appliance and XC Core System support the BOSS adapter card:
• XC640
• XC6420
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