Virtual disk information..............................................................................................................................................22
Virtual disk import...................................................................................................................................................... 22
Creating a virtual disk...................................................................................................................................................... 23
Deleting virtual disks........................................................................................................................................................23
RAID rebuild...................................................................................................................................................................... 23
Erase physical disk........................................................................................................................................................... 23
Controller information......................................................................................................................................................24
Clear controller conguration................................................................................................................................... 24
6 BOSS-S1 CLI commands............................................................................................................................. 25
Using CLI commands from Windows............................................................................................................................ 25
Using CLI commands from Linux................................................................................................................................... 25
Using CLI commands from ESXi.................................................................................................................................... 25
Supported BOSS-S1 CLI commands.............................................................................................................................26
7 Troubleshooting............................................................................................................................................27
ROM version for BOSS reported as rmware version in iDRAC interface................................................................27
Firmware update of M.2 drive on BOSS-S1 controller fails.........................................................................................27
BOSS-S1 CLI displays No Adapter Found error in Linux............................................................................................. 28
LC log displays fan unavailability error...........................................................................................................................28
Updating BOSS-S1 controller rmware using iDRAC or LC fails................................................................................28
Physical disk size not updated in iDRAC....................................................................................................................... 28
Physical disk/Virtual disk missing in iDRAC.................................................................................................................. 28
Back Ground Activity task progress in HII does not report real-time status............................................................ 29
Virtual disk state will be generated twice......................................................................................................................29
Character limitation while naming a virtual disk........................................................................................................... 29
VMFS datastore is disabled on the 14th generation of PowerEdge systems that are shipped with VMware
ESXi installed on BOSS-S1..............................................................................................................................................29
Physical disk not visible to operating system............................................................................................................... 29
Virtual disk not visible to operating system.................................................................................................................. 30
Drive replacement............................................................................................................................................................30
Controller replacement....................................................................................................................................................30
Controller failure...............................................................................................................................................................30
Unable to boot to M.2 drive installed in slot 1...............................................................................................................30
CLI reports unsupported features...................................................................................................................................31
Failure to install ESXi on RAID 1...................................................................................................................................... 31
System not responding.................................................................................................................................................... 31
Management port not responding..................................................................................................................................31
8 Getting help.................................................................................................................................................32
Contacting Dell EMC....................................................................................................................................................... 32
Documentation feedback................................................................................................................................................32
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