Owners Manual
BOSS card
Introduction to BOSS card
BOSS is a simple RAID solution card designed specically for booting a server'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 blade servers.
NOTE: There are no status LEDs on the BOSS card.
Figure 85. Features of BOSS card
1
SATA drive connector (2) 2 80 mm M.2 SATA drive 1
3 80 mm M.2 SATA drive 2
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/support/operatingsystemmanuals. For specic operating system service pack requirements, see the Drivers and
Downloads section at Dell.com/support/manuals.
Supported XC Series systems
The following XC Series systems support the BOSS adapter card:
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