• KIT,CRD,NVM,3.2,HHHL,PM1725
Boot Optimized Storage Subsystem
The Boot Optimized Storage Subsystem (BOSS) is oered as a means of booting PowerEdge systems to a full OS mode when,
• Target OS is a full OS and not hypervisor that may be supported best by IDSDM
• You do not wish to trade o standard hot plug drive slots for OS install
The RAID controller on the BOSS card has limited set of features. This RAID controller presents the M.2 SATA SSDs as either a non-
RAID volume or as a single RAID volume.
Figure 7. Boot Optimized Storage Subsystem (BOSS)
Table 12. BOSS features
Function or feature Supported
Stripe size supported 64K
Conguration (HII) Yes
Full initialization No
Fast initialization Yes
NOTE: By default, fast initialization is performed when you create a virtual
disk.
Background initialization No
RAID 0 No
RAID 1 Yes
Single non-RAID Yes
Dual non-RAID Yes
Degraded RAID1 and non-RAID No
Foreign import Yes
Consistency check No
Patrol read No
Load balance N/A
Rebuild Yes
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