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1 Overview........................................................................................................................................................5

Supported operating systems...........................................................................................................................................6

Supported PowerEdge systems ......................................................................................................................................6

BOSS-S1 card specications.............................................................................................................................................7

Supported M.2 drives........................................................................................................................................................ 8

Management applications for the BOSS-S1 controller..................................................................................................8

Update the BOSS-S1 controller........................................................................................................................................8

Update the BOSS-S1 rmware.........................................................................................................................................8

Firmware update using an operating system-specic DUP.......................................................................................... 9

Firmware update using Windows DUP...................................................................................................................... 9

Firmware update using Linux DUP.............................................................................................................................9

Firmware update using UEFI Shell................................................................................................................................... 9

Firmware update using BOSS-S1 CLI.............................................................................................................................10

Firmware update using Windows..............................................................................................................................10

Firmware update using Linux.....................................................................................................................................10

Firmware update using iDRAC......................................................................................................................................... 11

Firmware update using Lifecycle Controller................................................................................................................... 11

Related documentation.....................................................................................................................................................11

2 Features....................................................................................................................................................... 12

Foreign import................................................................................................................................................................... 12

SMART info....................................................................................................................................................................... 12

Auto-rebuild....................................................................................................................................................................... 13

Non-RAID disk support.................................................................................................................................................... 13

TRIM...................................................................................................................................................................................13

Quick initialization............................................................................................................................................................. 13

Erase physical disk............................................................................................................................................................ 13

3 Deploying the BOSS-S1 card........................................................................................................................ 14

Removing the BOSS-S1 card.......................................................................................................................................... 14

Removing the M.2 SSD module from the BOSS-S1 card......................................................................................15

Installing the M.2 SSD module on BOSS-S1 card................................................................................................... 17

Installing the BOSS-S1 card.............................................................................................................................................18

4 Driver installation.........................................................................................................................................20

5 UEFI or HII RAID conguration utility........................................................................................................... 21

Entering the UEFI conguration utility...........................................................................................................................21

Exiting the UEFI conguration utility..............................................................................................................................21

Entering the BOSS-S1 conguration utility...................................................................................................................22

Physical or virtual disk information................................................................................................................................ 22

Physical disk information...........................................................................................................................................22

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