Questions tagged [supermicro]

Supermicro is a computer hardware company headquartered in San Jose, California. They design and manufacture server equipment.

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enabling virtualization on supermicro board

I'm trying to setup a virtualization server on an old Supermicro board (mainly for experimenting a bit), using qemu/kvm (running on Debian/jessie, with a 3.16.0-4-amd64 kernel) The board is equipped with Intel Xeon CPUs, and as I understand it they…
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EDAC memory error after upgrade server SuperMicro with CentOS 7. Is these specific errors of motherboard, OS or broken RAM module?

I have server on SuperMicro MBD-X9DRD-EF motherboard. It worked well at CentOS7 during the year with one CPU (Intel Original Xeon X6 E5-2620v2) and 128 Gb (8x16 Gb) LVDDR (1600MHz Crucial ECC Reg RTL (PC3-12800)) memory. Last month we upgrade this…
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Supermicro stuck on 91

I have two servesr here with a Supermicro board, both of which are having the same issue (leading me to believe that it's an error with how I set them up) Whenever I try to start it up, it gets stuck on either "IPMI Initializing... 91" or "System…
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Supermicro NICs gone after BIOS update

Just updated the BIOS of two Supermicro 1022G-URFs to R3.5. They've both the mainboard H8DGU-F with two onboard Intel 82576 NICs. One of the two Supermicros doesn't have any visible NICs at all after this BIOS update. They are not even listed in the…
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5-pin 4-cable connector on SuperMicro server PSU?

I have a 4U SuperMicro SC847 Chassi that comes with redundant 1400W power supplies. All of the internal power cables (ATX, ATX12V, HDD and such) are connected to two circuitboards where the back of the power supplies plugs into. There is also a four…
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Install image with Ansible via IPMI?

Is there a way to install an image on and provision a bare metal SuperMicro IPMI server from the ground up with Ansible via in-band IPMI over VPN? I'm looking to see if I can automate the installation part of the process so all I need to do is add…
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Get power status over ipmi from zabbix

I am now looking for a way how to monitoring a server hardware such as fans/power supplies/etc.. The problem is, we have very dynamic environment - servers are automatically powered on/off - even several times a day, depending on load. I created…
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Is it possible to update Supermicro ConnectX-3 Firmware with newer firmware from Mellanox?

I have a Supermicro server with a X9DRT-HIBFF motherboard installed. It has on-board Infiniband based on the ConnectX-3 chipset from Mellanox. Supermicro supply firmware version 2.10.0700 and unfortunately it doesn't support SR-IOV, it's too old. …
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Entering BIOs Setup from Supermicro IPMI KVM

I'm having trouble getting into BIOs Setup from Supermicro IPMI "KVM" - Remote Control Console Redirection. I need to change the boot order to CDROM first. I'm running Windows 2008 server. After some Googling, it says here that the method is…
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Supermicro IPMI BMC security - how to disable HTTP?

On my Supermicro Server, using a H8SCM motherboard, I have an IPMI card. The IPMI card is version 2.0 and it is running the 2.37 firmware. The problem I have is that I find no feasible way to disable port 80 (HTTP access). As user ADMIN... Through…
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IPMI goes offline after powering up machine

Just got a Supermicro X7SPE-HF-D525 and it's my first time trying IPMI. I can connect to the IPMI web interface and use IPMIView to connect, but as soon as I power up the machine, I lose connection (and can't ping the IP anymore). Am I missing…
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On-board RAID-1 or Software RAID on SUPERMICRO MBD-X7SBE Asterisk Heavy Use?

I am looking using the on-board RAID controller of my SUPERMICRO MBD-X7SBE to setup a RAID-1 array with two Seagate ES2 hard disk drives. We have around 8 or so of these in production. I am going to use this for heavy Asterisk use with all calls…
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What is the SMBus I2C Header on my motherboard?

My motherboard has a slot on the motherboard for, JPI2C1 Power Supply SMBus I2C Header (X13SAE-F only) What is this used for? The motherboard manual say nothing more about it. What is this for? What do I plug in there? What happens if I plug…
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How to make Web ISO work in Virtual Media on SuperMicro ipmi?

How does Virtual Media Web ISO work on SuperMicro ipmi? I am using SuperMicro sever. I want to be able to mount bootable ISO image to a server, launch long process there (disk formatting), and then turn off my laptop. But if I do it, the remote…
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Supermicro NVME ports - how to use?

So, my supermicro X11 Dai-N has 8 pci-e lanes routed to two dedicated nvme ports. I just can’t figure out how to connect my nvme harddisks to them. What’s the name of this port specification? Is there some special cable required? If so, what’s the…
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