The Dell PowerEdge servers offer the Boot Optimized Storage Solution (BOSS) controller as an efficient and economical way to separate the operating system and data on the internal storage of the server. The BOSS solution in the latest generation of PowerEdge servers uses one or two BOSS M.2 SATA devices to provide RAID 1 capability for the operating system drive.
Note: All Microsoft HCI Solutions from Dell Technologies are configured with hardware RAID 1 for the operating system drives on BOSS M.2 SATA SSD devices. The steps in this section are required only when recovering a failed cluster node. Before creating a new RAID, the existing or failed RAID must be deleted.
- Go to .
Figure 49. View controllers 
- Go to > Virtual Disk Configuration, and then click Create Virtual Disk.
Figure 50. Create a virtual disk 
- Provide a virtual disk name and select BOSS M.2 devices in the physical disks.
Figure 51. Provide virtual disk name 
Figure 52. Set physical disks 
- Go to .
Figure 53. Initialize configuration 
- After the initialization is completed successfully, the virtual disk health status is displayed.
Figure 54. Virtual disk health status 