Posts tagged 'Server Hardware'

A Dell BOSS card is a two-drive M.2 boot device, not a general-purpose RAID controller. This guide puts BOSS-S1, BOSS-S2 and BOSS-N1 side by side on media, RAID behaviour, placement and serviceability, and maps every PowerEdge model Dell documents against each card.

Proxmox VE runs on almost anything, but a stable production host needs the right CPU, ECC RAM, storage controller, and network. Here is exactly what to look for — from minimum specs to a Ceph cluster — and which refurbished Dell PowerEdge servers fit each tier.