Supermicro is a computer hardware company headquartered in San Jose, California. They design and manufacture server equipment.
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Supermicro X7DVA Not Recognizing More Than 4GB of RAM
We've got several Supermicro servers that we're trying to upgrade the RAM on so that we can run virtual servers on them, but only a few of them took the RAM upgrade that we performed. We double-checked to make sure that the RAM was all in the proper…

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Single E5-1600v2 on Dual Socket motherboad
Is it possible to install one E5-1650 v2 on each node on twin 1U, dual socket supermicro 1027TR-TF server?
I know that E5-1600 series cannot run in dual socket configuration. The question is that will it run if I put only one on a dual socket…

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supermicro servers - ipmi / nagios disk monitoring
I have several machines from this manufacturer in my group. I'm looking for a method / process to monitor disk health. IPMI doesn't seem to offer anything beyond fan speed and CPU temperature.
Has anyone got a method to incorporate disk status into…

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IPMI web management on Supermicro not working: "Could not open device at /dev/ipmi0 or /dev/ipmi/0 or /dev/ipmidev/0:..." and "Invalid Channel 255"
Troubleshooting an IPMI issue on a centos 6.5 server. Specifically, I am not able to set up IPMI web management due to errors when trying to work with IPMI LAN settings.
I get the following error when I type ipmitool lan print:
[root@]# ipmitool…

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Unable to login to IPMI of Supermicro X9DRW-iF after f/w upgrade
I have a box with SuperMicro X9DRW-iF mainboard. It has built-in BMC module, which provides IPMI interface and web-GUI for it.
After upgrading BMC firmware from R 2.35 to R 2.59 under web-GUI ("Network" and "IPMI" options was checked in "BMC…

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Supermicro X8DT3/X8DTi hardisk not found after installing OS
I try to install Linux CentOS in server Supermicro X8DT3/X8DTi. Installation proccessed succesfully, but after server rebooting, server cannot boot into OS. When I check BIOS, no hardisk found on boot priority. I'm counfuse what's the problem,…

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Allow console access to physical machines through telnet
We have a Super Micro server blade in our lab running a custom OS.The console of the OS can be accessed using the Super Micro web interface. A window gets created by running a .jnlp which needs to be downloaded from the Super Micro web interface. It…

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Conflict between Nvidia Grid K2 & integrated graphics on Supermicro VDI?
My office has a Supermicro SYS-1027GR-TR2-2NVK2 VDI server with dual Nvidia GRID K2 cards running Windows Server 2012 R2 & RemoteFX. We are an architectural firm and use 3D graphics software. Users RDP into Hyper-V Virtual Machines with Windows 8.1…

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Alternate port numbers for Supermicro IPMI View software
I'm using the IPMI View software to manage a SuperMicro server but would like to use alternate port #s within the program itself.
In other words - If I use the web browser, it defaults to port 80 - While I can, say change that port to 12345 (or…

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How to be able to use IPMI yet have graphics acceleration with a discrete graphics card?
In my lab, we have a compute server (two of them, but identical in config) running Fedora 19, built on the Supermicro H8QGI-F and 4 x AMD Opteron 6272s. It has an nVidia GT 610 discrete graphic card, and an integrated Matrox G200eW adapter. The…

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Determining speed of PCI Express
I am trying to use a new NIC in my server however I am getting this message,
"This Solarflare Network Adapter requires the equivalent of 8 lanes at PCI Express 2 speed for full throughput"
I have the motherboard…

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Supermicro Smash power management commands don't work
SMASH power management commands don't work for me.
For example, I've tried the following in attempt to power on the chassis:
start /system1/pwrmgtsvc1
It says "start..done." but the server chassis is not powered on. Same thing when I tried it for…

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Access ESXi via the exclusive network management interface for an IPMI board
I would like to know if it's possible to access the ESXi configuration through vSphere using an dedicated network interface for IPMI connection with the motherboard.
We have some Supermicro boards, specifically X9SCM, with IPMI in a private…

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Supermicro IPMI card 3rd data port
What does the AOC-SIMLP-3(+) SuperMicro IPMI-card have in favor of the AOC-SIMLP-B(+)?
I see that it has an additional LAN-Port, named as 3rd data port, but what is it actually used for and what are the advantages?

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ipmi on a supermicro mothercard
As newbie, I try to use IPMI with a supermicro mothercard x8dth-if, version 1.0
I decided to use the LAN1, not the dedicated IPMI LAN.
In BIOS I set the address to 192.168.1.199 for IPMI.
My OS is debian-squeeze. I installed ipmitool.
LAN1 address…

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