Support for BOSS RAID controllers

BOSS RAID controllers support all operating system.
The BOSS RAID controllers support the following enumeration and monitoring operations:
  • The physical disks (M.2 devices) are directly connected to the controller.
  • Enumeration of Physical Disks on M.2 devices is supported.
  • Enumeration of Virtual Disks on M.2 devices is supported.
  • Physical disks operations or tasks for Blink and Unblink are supported only for BOSS-S2 controller and BOSS-N1 (M.2 devices).
  • Hot-plug insertion and hot-plug removal are supported on BOSS-S2 controller and BOSS-N1 (M.2 devices) controller.
NOTE: Storage Management updates the M.2 device firmware everyday at 12.00 am.
NOTE: If the data transfer is not happening on M.2 drives while performing hot-plug out operation, then after hot plug-in back the same, the virtual disk rebuild alert is not generated. The virtual disk status changes from degraded to online.
NOTE: For NVMe drives, the Vendor ID value is displayed as the vendor name on Information/Configuration page. For SAS or SATA drives, the Vendor ID value is displayed as the Dell or Dell (tm) on Information/Configuration page.
The following tasks are not supported:
  • Configuration options are not supported for this controller.
  • Enclosures and connectors are not applicable for the controller.
  • Physical disks operations/tasks are not supported for BOSS-S1 controller.
  • No configuration operations are supported for virtual disks including creation, deletion, reconfiguration, and so on.
  • No controller tasks are supported.
The following physical disks properties are enumerated for this controller: ID, Status, Name, State, Bus Protocol, Media, Revision, Model Number, Capacity, Used RAID Disk Space, Available RAID Disk Space, Hot Spare, Vendor ID, Product ID, Serial No., Negotiated Speed, Capable Speed, Logical Block Size, SAS Address, Remaining Rated Write Endurance, and Available Spare.
NOTE: Available Spare is available only on BOSS-N1 controller.
NOTE: SAS Address is not available for M.2 devices.
The following controller properties are enumerated for this controller: ID, Status, Name, Slot ID, State, Firmware Version, and Patrol Read Rate.
NOTE: Even though the Rebuild Rate is displayed in the OM UI and CLI, do not consider the same. This property is not enumerated.
The following virtual disk properties are enumerated for this controller: Status, Name, State, Tasks, Layout, size, Device Name, Bus Protocol, Media, Write Policy, Strip Element Size, Read Policy, and Disk Cache Policy.
NOTE: Layout option is not available for non-RAID disks.