Supported M.2 drives
The BOSS-S1 card supports the following M.2 drives:
Table 2. BOSS-S1 card supported M.2 drives
Drive Model Capacity
Intel M.2 S3520 120 GB, 240 GB, 480 GB
Micron M.2 5100 240 GB, 480 GB
NOTE: Dell EMC recommends that you use the BOSS-S1 card only as an operating system boot device.
NOTE: Ensure that M.2 drives have the latest rmware. You can download the latest rmware from dell.com/support.
Management applications for the BOSS-S1 controller
Management applications enable you to manage and congure the RAID system, create and manage the disk group, and provide online
maintenance. The management applications for BOSS-S1 card include:
• Unied Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) RAID Conguration Utility—This storage management application is integrated into
the system BIOS (F2). See UEFI/HII RAID conguration utility.
• Dell OpenManage Storage Management—This application enables you to perform controller and enclosure functions for all supported
RAID controllers and enclosures from a single graphical or command-line interface. For more information, see the Dell OpenManage
Storage Management User's Guide at Dell.com/openmanagemanuals.
• BOSS-S1 Command Line Interface (CLI) Utility—This application enables you to check controller, physical disk and virtual disk status
while booted to an operating system. The application is also used to check SMART information of the physical disks and display
controller. Windows systems use the mvsetup utility while Linux systems use the mvcli utility. The BOSS-S1 CLI Utility also supports
ESXi. For more information about CLI commands, see BOSS-S1 CLI commands.
NOTE
: To use the mvsetup Windows utility, the BOSS-S1 management driver must rst be installed. You can download the
latest Windows driver from Dell.com/support. Linux/ESXi mvcli does not require a driver.
NOTE: To remove mvcli from operating systems, uninstall BOSS-S1 drivers from the operating systems or remove the libraries
and the executable les.
NOTE: Systems Management through iDRAC/LC is not enabled in the rmware version A00. It is available in A01 and later
versions.
• iDRAC and LC—This application enables you to eectively monitor the RAID and network controllers installed on the system using
iDRAC and LC without an operating system installed on the system. For more information, see the Integrated Dell Remote Access
Controller 9 User's Guide at Dell.com/idracmanuals.
Update the BOSS-S1 controller
CAUTION
: Ensure that you have installed the latest rmware version available at Dell.com/support.
You can update controller rmware using Lifecycle Controller (LC), iDRAC, or UEFI shell. The controller rmware can be updated using the
BOSS-S1 command line interface (CLI) utility and Dell Update Package (DUP) when booted to an operating system. You can download the
latest DUP and BOSS-S1 CLI from Dell.com/support.
Update the BOSS-S1 rmware
BOSS-S1 card rmware updates can be done using the following methods:
• operating system Dell Update Packages
• UEFI Shell
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