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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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Why are some ISO files not mountable via Supermicro iKVM Viewer

I am using a Supermicro server, and its ipmi firmware has a so called "Virtual Media" function. It allows you to mount an ISO file, which is then presented to server as a USB CD-ROM. I cannot understand why some of the ISO files are not mountable.…
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Is it safe to upgrade the IPMI/BMC firmware on a running Supermicro server?

We have two important production servers on (fairly ancient) Supermicro X8DT6 motherboards. I've never updated BMC firmware before, but I'm keen to see if we can get some HTML5 kvm consoles running on these machines, and to know if the upgrade is…
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No network available on Supermicro server

I recently acquired a second heand Supermicro 2027GR-TRF with a Super X9DRG-HF motherboard. I can't access the network and I don't understand why. Both RJ45 ports are blinking green steadily. Here what I tried to do: Bios has been updated and…
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Supermicro Motherboard won't boot, onboard power LED lights up

I'm having issues getting a Supermicro motherboard to boot. When I switch the PSU on, the Onboard Standby Power LED lights up on the motherboard. Pushing the power switch then has no effect. No beeps, nothing on the screen, the PSU fan doesn't start…
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Enable Supermicro Virtualization in Bios

my motherboard is a Supermicro x9dri-ln4f+, and I am using dual xeon e5 2690 CPUs. I have been trying to enable Virtualization in order to load VMs in qemu and virtualbox. The motherboard claims to support VT-x,VT-d, and VT-c in the specs page, and…
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How do I get rid of this SATARaid screen on boot?

I have a server with a SuperMicro X8SIL-V motherboard. Here's the manual. Every time it boots, it spends about three minutes at this screen: Sil 3124 SATARaid BIOS Version 6.3.18 Copyright (C) 1997-2006 Silicon Image, Inc. Press (Ctrl+S) or F4 to…
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Wrong low/high/crit temperature levels reported by lm-sensors

Results reported by lm_sensors until now were OK, now all of a sudden I'm getting 0°C for low/high/crit temperature levels: % sensors jc42-i2c-0-1a Adapter: SMBus I801 adapter at 0580 temp1: +26.0°C (low = +0.0°C) ALARM…
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How to use more than 3 hardrives with Supermicro X9DRT-HF board?

I got a 4 node supermicro 2U unit which has 12 how swapable caddies, 3 for each node. The problem is that I want to connect at least 4 if not even 6 drives to a single node. The BIOS reports 3*2 SATA slots which makes me think that I should be able…
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Supermicro BIOS Automatic CentOS Install

Is there a way, with the default BIOS interface on current Supermicro servers, to automatically install a network-provided OS (FreeBSD, CentOS, etc.) image, coupled with a specific config file that provides machine-name, nework info (static IP,…
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Supermicro server not booting with OS

We have purchased Supermicro X9DRi-LN4F model and installed Ubuntu 18 and during installation it finds the HDD and created partition and all goes well, but as soon as installation finishes and it restarts the system it comes up with following…
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Where is the RAID volume under Linux when configuring onboard Supermicro X10SRi-F

I have a Supermicro SYS-5018R-MR with a X10SRi-F mainboard. I've configured the onboard RAID adapter (via CTRL+I during boot) to use two drives in bays 4 and 5 for a RAID1 configuration. The volume is reported as "normal" and the volume (I've named…
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Configuring RAID HP P822 Smart Array controller in Supermicro system, possible?

I have a very strange mashup of parts that I am trying to get working for a project. Due to a windfall from a client who was getting rid of hardware, I became the proud owner of a HP P822 controller. I also happen to have an older Supermicro X8DAH…
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How to get all sensor from a Supermicro JBOD via IPMI

how can I get all sensors on a SM JBOD via IPMI? When I use the IPMIView from Supermicro I see a lot of them, some of these not, specialy PSU (PMBus) things like Temperature, Voltage, etc. I need this for monitoring this sensors also. Can somebody…
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PCIex lanes on Supermicro X10SRH-CF

I am trying to set up 5 GPUs on X10SRH-CF to run Tensorflow, but cannot seem to get the board boot up with more than 3 cards plugged in. In some layout I get it to boot with 4 cards but OS (Ubuntu server 16.04) sees only 3 cards plugged in. If I…
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Supermicro x8, x9 set some settings by cli

We have many servers supermicro x8xxx, x9 xxx and I wanna set smtp, hostname settings by script. For this I need some cli útil or interface. I know about smcipmitool, but it can set smtp only for x10. Are there any another way? In documentation…
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