Dell BNSA-1600, User Manual

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Chapter 1: Dell Boot Optimized Storage Solution-N1..................................................................... 5
Hardware components of BOSS-N1 Monolithic controller........................................................................................5
Technical specifications of BOSS-N1 Monolithic controller......................................................................................6
Supported M.2 drives of BOSS-N1 Monolithic controllers........................................................................................ 7
Operating systems supported by BOSS-N1 controllers............................................................................................. 8
Chapter 2: Applications supported by BOSS-N1............................................................................ 9
Unified Extensible Firmware Interface Configuration Utility.....................................................................................9
Dell OpenManage Storage Management....................................................................................................................... 9
BOSS-N1 Command Line Interface Utility.....................................................................................................................9
Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller and Lifecycle Controller..................................................................... 10
Chapter 3: Update the BOSS-N1 firmware.................................................................................... 11
Update BOSS-N1 firmware using Windows update packages................................................................................. 11
Update BOSS-N1 firmware using Linux.........................................................................................................................11
Update BOSS-N1 firmware using iDRAC......................................................................................................................12
Update BOSS-N1 firmware using Lifecycle Controller..............................................................................................12
Chapter 4: Features of BOSS-N1..................................................................................................14
Hot–plugging M.2 drives in BOSS-N1 Monolithic form factor................................................................................14
Identify M.2 drives by using LEDs..................................................................................................................................14
Secure firmware update................................................................................................................................................... 14
Foreign import of VDs.......................................................................................................................................................15
Predictive failure analysis using the SMART feature................................................................................................ 15
Auto–rebuild a degraded drive....................................................................................................................................... 15
Chapter 5: Install and remove a BOSS-N1 controllers...................................................................16
Safety instructions.............................................................................................................................................................16
Before working inside your system................................................................................................................................ 17
After working inside your system................................................................................................................................... 17
Remove the BOSS-N1 Monolithic controller............................................................................................................... 17
Install the BOSS-N1 Monolithic controller...................................................................................................................20
Chapter 6: Driver support for BOSS-N1....................................................................................... 24
Chapter 7: BOSS-N1 Configuration Utility................................................................................... 25
Enter the BOSS-N1 Configuration Utility.................................................................................................................... 25
Exit the BOSS-N1 Configuration Utility....................................................................................................................... 25
Navigate the BOSS-N1 Configuration Utility..............................................................................................................26
Physical and virtual device information....................................................................................................................... 26
View physical disk information................................................................................................................................. 26
View virtual device information................................................................................................................................26
Import and set a foreign virtual disk as BOSS-N1............................................................................................... 27
Create a virtual disk.......................................................................................................................................................... 27
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