Dell PowerEdge R350 Rack Server CTO

Using Dell Technologies’ intuitive end-to-end tools, IT can deliver a secure, integrated experience by reducing process and information silos in order to focus on growing the business. The Dell EMC OpenManage portfolio is the key to your innovation engine, unlocking the tools and automation that help you scale, manage, and protect your technology environment.

• Built-in telemetry streaming, thermal management, and RESTful API with Redfish offer streamlined visibility and control for better server management
• Intelligent automation lets you enable cooperation between human actions and system capabilities for added productivity
• Integrated change management capabilities for update planning and seamless, zero-touch configuration and implementation
• Full-stack management integration with Microsoft, VMware, ServiceNow, Ansible and many other tools

The Dell EMC PowerEdge R350 server is designed with a cyber-resilient architecture, integrating security deeply into every phase in the lifecycle, from design to retirement.

• Operate your workloads on a secure platform anchored by cryptographically trusted booting and silicon root of trust
• Maintain server firmware safety with digitally signed firmware packages
• Prevent unauthorized configuration or firmware change with system lockdown
• Securely and quickly wipe all data from storage media including hard drives, SSDs and system memory with System Erase

Boot Optimized Storage Solution (BOSS) is a RAID solution that is designed for boot optimization and provides a separate RAID/SSD solution allowing customers to maximize server disk slots for data.

The HW RAID BOSS-S2 card is a RAID controller with a limited feature set that presents M.2 SATA-only SSDs as either Non-RAID disks or a single RAID1 volume. BOSS enables support for 240 GB and 480 GB disks from factory installation.

• Hardware: BOSS-S2 controller and carrier (x2)
• Reliability: Enterprise-Class M.2 SATA SSDs
• Supports dual 80 mm, Read Intensive (1DWPD), M.2 devices 240GB/480GB Standard – 960GB/1.9TB QNS
• Accessibility: Rear facing
• Serviceability: Full hot-plug support
• Supports hardware RAID1 and pass-through
• Marvell 88SE9230 SATA RAID controller
• Standard inbox AHCI drivers
• Supports UEFI and legacy boot
• LED for M.2 device
• Controlled firmware upgrade through iDRAC

The intended use of IDSDM is to support hypervisor boot: a minimal OS that primarily resides in memory and does not depend on the IDSDM heavily for I/O. Writes, in particular, should be minimized as the SD media can wear out.
The IDSDM card provides the following functions:

• Dual SD interface is maintained in a mirrored configuration (primary and secondary SD).
• Provides full RAID1 functionality.
• Dual SD cards are not required; the module can operate with only one card but will provide no redundancy.
• Enables support for Secure Digital eXtended Capacity (SDXC) cards.
• USB interface to the host system.
• I2C interface to host system and onboard EEPROM for out-of-band status reporting.
• Onboard LEDs show the status of each SD card.
• A BIOS Setup Redundancy setting supports Mirror Mode or Disabled.