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

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How does a server main board measure watt usage?

We just got a new Server. In the sensors panel there are not only temperatures and fan speeds but also "watt usage"... Is this value somehow calculated or is it a real sensor on the supermicro main board? 144 watts seems quite low for a system with…
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Nexentastor CE on Supermicro X10DRL-I

I'm writing here because after 3 hours i'm still not able to install NexentaStorCE on my brand new server. The hardware configuration is: Supermicro x10drl-i Xeon E5 2609V3 16GB DDR4 Kingston I'm trying to install from an external usb…
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Can I perform an IPMI bios update without a supported CPU?

I'm considering to build a server using the Supermicro X10SLL-F board with a Xeon E3-1231 v3 CPU. However, according to my research, this CPU requires a BIOS update (unfortunately Supermicro does not have BIOS changelogs or CPU compatibility lists…
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SuperMicro Superblade fails to boot from hard drive

Following issue. I have a number of Superblades with LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i cards. One card per server. All of them use the latest firmware (20.13.1-0176) as of this writing (as per the LSI website). Here one sample configuration of one of the…
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HP Smart Array P410 Stuck in Ready for Recovery 00.0%

We are using smart array disk controller P410 by HP on our supermicro server. Sadly of the HDDs in a RAID10 Array was damaged and we were forced to change that specific hard disk. After 3 days and rebooting the server 2 times we are still seeing…
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IPMI MAC address all zeros after update

I've updated a SuperMicro X7SPA-HF-D525 to IPMI firmware version 3.12. I've tried setting the MAC address with the BIOS, ipmicfg and ipnmac. Is there a fix for this?
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Best way to hide ILO/IPMI management port and not using public IPs

I have 5 servers, each has one internet port and one ipmi port, so I am using 10 external IPs. Its a bit problem with a provider to get more IPs and also I want to hide IPMI ports since sometimes there is an bug in them which allows to exploit the…
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How does one cause a Megaraid controller to "re-scan" the devices?

We are using a Supermicro Megaraid card (2208) and we are trying to perform some SCSI operations directly on the drives using the passthrough ioctl. One issue that we have run into is that when we change something on the drive (say it's visible…
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Can't find fan speed setting on Supermicro X9DRW

I have one Supermicro server with a X9DRW board, BIOS v1.0a, that does not seem to have any way of controlling fan speed. I've looked through the entire BIOS, including the usual location of Advanced->Hardware Health->Fan Speed Control. The reason…
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ESXi 5.5 Configuration Not Saved After Reboot

I just installed a new copy of ESXi 5.5 onto a USB (32GB) stick and am trying to set up the configuration. However, when I reboot the server the cahnges I made to configuration like Ip's SSH settings ect. are blanked and revert to the install…
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Do SATA disks on an SAS backplane impose cable length limits?

On two Supermicro 847E16-RJBOD1 enclosures, I have trouble accessing SATA disks on the rear backplane with 6gb/s. The only significant difference between rear and front backplanes is total cable length from HBA to backplane, which is about 1m + 30cm…
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What is the life expectancy of a server grade fan?

The title is telling, I guess. In particular, I am wondering how risky is it not to change the fan of a 4 years old Supermicro server?
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Can I pull a card from the PCI-x bus without powering down?

Background I accidentally forgot to unplug a server's power when pulling a card even though the system was powered down at the OS level. Unfortunately doing so seems to have corrupted the system's BIOS and the IPMI/BMC BIOS. It also seems to have…
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Installing IPMI Bios onto supermicro

I have one of these: http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/QPI/5500/X8DTG-QF.cfm And IPMI is just not operating anymore, it had been at one point. It comes up as non functional in the BIOS (i.e. "Status of BMC Not Working" & "IPMI…
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How to flash a BIOS when the firmware is larger than will fit on a DOS boot disk?

I have a supermicro motherboard I want to flash the BIOS on, but the firmware is bigger than will fit on a freedos boot disk. How can I flash it? I should point out that I am using linux on my desktop NOT windows and bootable CD is not an option,…
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