Questions tagged [supermicro]

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

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Difference between LFM and adaptive throttling for TM2 thermal management

Some Supermicro BIOS have a 'TM2 Mode' option under Advanced/CPU configuration. Available values are: LFM throttling adaptive throttling What are the differences between those two throttling modes? What are the advantages/disadvantage with respect…
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Detect Supermicro DIMM (memory) errors as reported during POST without rebooting

One of our Supermicro servers reports an error like this during POST: Failing DIMM: DIMM location (Correctable memory component found) DIMMB2 I can also see this in the Health Event Log in the IPMI web interface: Failing DIMM: DIMM location.…
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Supermicro: New NVMe is not detected properly

We have a Supermicro SuperServer 2029U-TN24R4T with currently 8 U.2 NVMe drives (Samsung PM1725a 1.6 TB) running on CentOS 7 with kernel 5.0.10-1.el7.elrepo.x86_64. After adding a new one (PM1725b 1.6 TB), it shows up for a few seconds in /dev (but…
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configure supermicro x10 ipmi email alert?

does anyone know how to configure a Supermicro X10dri to send out email alerts through its IPMI interface? I am trying to use a gmail account and have already enabled less secure apps.
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Meaning of Supermicro firmware update error messages

Flashing the 1.1a BIOS update for the Abit A2SDi-8C+-HLN4F seems to work but there are some error messages: Reading flash ... done - ME Data Size checking ... ok - FFS checksums .... ok - Check RomLayout ... Ok Erasing Boot Block ... done Updating…
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diagnostics for a server that keeps turning off

I have a 1U supermicro box that's a few years old and off-warranty. Recently it has begun randomly shutting down. It will stay up for anywhere from a few hours to a week and then stop responding. The IPMI console shows it as powered on but it's…
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Multliple core overload above 100% on Centos7 Supermicro Server

I am running Centos 7 (3.10.0-514.26.2.el7.x86_64) on a supermicro H8QG6 board with 4 AMD 6276 cpus (16 cores), for a total of 64 cores. I use it for scientific computing, and usually everything runs smoothly, as in the htop first image. Then,…
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Supermicro server not detecting SAS drives

I got a used Supermicro server with no drives in it. When I plug in a SATA drive it detects it just fine but when I plug in a SAS drive, even the BIOS will not detect the drive. It looks like the backplane has SAS connectors on it, but I'm not sure…
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Disable hardware RAID controller

I have a storage server with Supermicro X9SCL(+)/X9SCM motherboard and MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i controller. I want to disable RAID to access HDDs directly from OS for further softraid setup. Motherboard manual says there should 4 options: Disabled,…
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How to make SCSI enclosure LEDs blink?

I have a SCSI enclosure (supermicro BPN-SAS-825TQ) residing on Ubuntu 16.04. Is there an sg_ses (or sg_senddiag or other) command I can send to the enclosure, that will make the Rear LEDs blink, even if there's no disk in the enclosure?
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Supermicro X8DAH+-F will not power on

I have a Supermicro X8DAH+-F Rev 2.01 motherboard that will not power on. I have two Xeon E5645 installed and 6x 8GB 2Rx4 PC3-10600R DIMMs installed in the A and B slots for each channel of each CPU respectively. Ram Link The fans spin briefly then…
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How do I get the power consumption of a Supermicro server on the CLI?

How do I get the power usage of a Supermicro server from the command line?
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Supermicro IPMI remote console security level to low

I am currently trying to access my supermicro IPMI remote console in my browser but every time I try to open it Java sais that the security setting of the application is to low, it must be high or very high. I tried to find any Firmware update but…
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ECC memory errors causing random server reboots

I'm running ubuntu server 14.04 on Supermicro X10SLM-F / Xeon E3-1271 v3 Memory: SuperTalent 32GB DDR3 1600 ECC About every 4 days, the logs on Ubuntu will show this: {1}[Hardware Error]: Hardware error from APEI Generic Hardware Error Source:…
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SuperMicro X9SRE only boots UEFI Debian 8.1 when "forced"

I have the following configuration: SuperMicro X9SRE (Intel C602 chipset) updated to latest firmware v3.2 (01/2015) LSI Spitfire 9211-4i HBA with 1 GiB NAND cache 3 x 2 TiB SATA 6Gbps HDDs in hardware RAID-5 Debian Jessie 8.1 installed in UEFI mode…
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