A Boss Card; Introduction To Boss Card; Supported Operating Systems; Supported Xc Series Systems - Dell E43S Series Installation And Service Manual

Introduction to BOSS card

BOSS is a simple RAID solution card designed specifically 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-profile 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 43. 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/support/operatingsystemmanuals. For specific 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:
• XC640
• XC6420
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