Questions tagged [supermicro]
Supermicro is a computer hardware company headquartered in San Jose, California. They design and manufacture server equipment.
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No ethernet connection on Intel® X722 10GBase-T Ethernet Controller on Ubuntu-Server 18.04 and 22.04
I'm trying to connect a server with installed Ubuntu-Server to the Internet via Ethernet cable with no success.
Here is the link to the platform we use - https://www.supermicro.com/en/products/system/...
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AOC-S3108L-H8iR SAS Fault LED
The system was working fine when suddenly the drives were no longer available. Upon further inspection I found that the SAS Fault LED was lit on the RAID card and the megaraid software no longer show ...
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How is Hardware RAID for NVME drives configured on SuperMicro?
I've purchased as x13sae motherboard from supermicro which is advertised as
M.2 Interface: 3 PCIe 4.0 x4 (RAID 0, 1, 5) M.2 Form Factor: 2280 M.2 Key: M-Key
I have two NVME dries in my m.2 ports. I ...
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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 ...
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How does hardware RAID handle firmware updates for the underlying drives?
My SuperMicro X13SAE has hardware raid for the three m.2 NVME drives that it supports. My question is how does it handle firmware updates for these drives? If the drives aren't being exposed to the ...
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SuperMicro 1114S-WN10RT (1U, AMD EPYC 7763) «normal» fan speed?
I cant find an information about "normal" fan speed for server.
Server: SuperMicro 1114S-WN10RT (1U) with 1x AMD EPYC 7763.
Now its 5% load:
user@server12:/home/user# ipmitool sdr list
CPU ...
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Session Continually Times out when Accessing SuperMicro IPMI via Cloudflare Tunnel
I have a SuperMicro X12dpi-N6 motherboard system that is currently running Ubuntu 22.04 Server. In order to support remote maintenance, I configured a cloudflare tunnel that would allow me to access ...
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Configuring SuperMicro IPMI to use syslog via SMCIPMITool?
Is there a way to use the IPMITool (I'm running version 2.26.0) to remotely configure the syslog settings of an IPMI interface?
I have a few dozen new systems and would prefer to not do this manually.
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Does exist SFF-8087 adapters to PCIe?
I've found a few adapters from SFF-8642/8639/8611 to PCI express.
Is it possible to do the same with a SFF-8087? Either directly or adapting to an intermediate format and then to PCI express?
I have a ...
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Supermicro server - Replacing faulty disks in a Raid-50
I have a Supermicro server model: X9DR3-F. The server acts as a ESXi host with a Windows 2012R2 server on top of it all.
The server has 22 disks in a RAID-50, with disk 22 being the hot spare.
I have ...
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Atom Parker Ridge intel_pstate: CPU model not supported? High power draw
I have a Supermicro A3SPI-8C-LN6PF board which features an embedded Intel Atom C5325 CPU running Proxmox (Debian 11.6, Kernel 6.2.11). dmesg is reporting intel_pstate: CPU model not supported and I'm ...
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Supermicro IPMI - pingable, flashable, HTTP/HTTPS not accessible
I have a Supermicro X9SRL-F motherboard on which the IPMI isn't working properly. When I got the board I went into the BIOS and changed the IP address to static and it shows as 192.168.x.y. The IP ...
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Supermicro ipmi dcmi privileges
Recently we tried to monitor supermicro's servers power consumption.
And got this error:
ipmitool -I lanplus -U readonly_user -H ip_address -P password dcmi power reading -L user
DCMI request failed ...
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Losing both power supplies on a Supermicro 2028U-E1CNRT+ (twice)
This is a new one for me. My agency has (1) 2028U-E1CNRT+ with a Supermicro motherboard Super X10DRU-i+. Approximately a month ago both power supplies died at the same time, the LED lights on the ...
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SAS drives not detected in JBOD's
I have two bnib Supermicro SYS-937R-E2JB JBOD connected with SFF8088 cables to my LSI 9200-8e HBA in my Dell T5810 workstation running Ubuntu Desktop 20.04. Neither the Seagate 12TB SAS or the ...
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Is it safe to set RAM frequency beyond Intel's POR?
Memory in our SuperMicro servers runs on a somewhat lower frequency than it could and it seems to be artificially limited by the Enforce POR BIOS setting. SuperMicro warns on their website that "...
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I can't turn on sleep on Supermicro X12STH-F board (or find out if it's supported)
I've recently updated to MB Supermicro X12STH-F, Intel Xeon 2388G and I can't make it sleep (OS Windows 10 Pro). It's a server motherboard and cpu, but my previous MB/CPU was also server and sleep was ...
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BIOS/OS reporting different memory to dmidecode
I have a SuperMicro server in production with 8x 16GB dual rank DDR3 ECC registered sticks installed (128GB). Had a bunch of ECC errors on one stick one day that caused issues for a few minutes plus ...
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Supermicro won't boot from RAID virtual drive after a power outage
One of our Supermicro servers won't boot from the virtual drive on a MegaRAID SAS 9361-8i after a power outage.
It can still boot from a USB stick without trouble, all hard drives and
file systems ...
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RAID 6 array, one disk rebuilding?
I have got a 10 disk (16 TB) RAID-6 array (AVAGO MegaRAID SAS 9380-8e) in a Supermicro JBOD enclosure. The controller started beeping today and one disk is blinking red/blue. I entered the AVAGO ...
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IPMI password works for SSH but not HTTP
What I want to do
I want to log in to IPMI through the web interface. The motherboard is from Supermicro and the product name is X11DPG-QT. I am able to access the login webpage, but I get the error ...
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How to change BootOption bios settings with redfish?
I'm trying to change the NIC a server boots from using the redfish module in python. The server is a supermicro board:
Firmware Version 01.00.17
Firmware Build Time 09/02/2021
Redfish Version ...
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Max Hard Drive Size for SATA 2
Recently acquired a 1U Supermicro E3-1230 with two 3.5" drive bays, and thinking of buying two 18TB SATA-3 hard drives for it. Before I make this investment, would anyone know if SATA-2 (3 Gbps) ...
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What's the safest way to swap an SSD (RAID 10)?
I have machines (4x 2 TB SSDs, Hardware RAID 10 via LSI 9265-8i cards) and occasionally need to swap an SSD - for example if it fails.
I'm curious to hear what people consider to be the safest ...
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Supermicro backplane diagnostics
I have three supermicro servers, 2x 3U chassis with X8DTE motherboard and SAS-836TQ backplanes and 1x 1U chassis with X9DRW-iF with SAS-815TQ backplane.
1 of the 3U backplanes only recognizes 12 out ...
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Supermicro Caddies - mounting 2.5" SATA disks in 3.5" caddies
I need to replace some 3.5" drives with 2.5" SATA SSD's in an older (remote) Supermicro system where I do not know the Chassis model.
What I do know is the motherboard is an X10DRi ...
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SuperMicro 16-Bay chassis only recognizes 12 drives
I recently purchased two refurbished Supermicro SC836TQ (3U, 16bay) chassis with SAS backplanes (Standard SAS836-TQ planes).
One works perfectly fine, but the other fails to recognize/initialize any ...
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Did I brick this X9DRH board?
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Previously-working Supermicro server suddenly has no video output (either from previously-working onboard VGA port or GPU), no iKVM, no output on UART or Serial-over-LAN. IPMI device suddenly ...
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Limiting in-band OS access to Supermicro BMC (AST2500) possible?
TL;DR: Is there any option to disable OS (in-band) access to Aspeed AST 2500 BMC on a SuperMicro board or at least limit it somehow (e.g. via specific password or via setting the permission level to ...
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console not show , supermicro server
hope you have a good day.
This is my first time to configure a server. I'm facing small issue, after I login to super micro server "remotely", the console not showing.
note that I already ...
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How to identify slot for faulty GPU card in server using UBUNTU OS commands?
I have a question. Is it possible to identify in which slot there is a broken GPU card using the UBUNTU operating system? We have a SuperMicro GPU server in which there are about 8 GPU cards for AI ...
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Server stuck on "Intel Reference Code Execution"
Setup - Supermicro X10DRU-i+ motherboard, 2x Intel e5-2630v4:
server started rebooting at random times
had memory modules reseated and replaced, reseated CPUs
reset CMOS, updated BIOS
changed ...
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supermicro server - long time for reboot
Dears,
I trying to reboot supermicro server first time, and it takes long time more than 30 min and not finish yet.
ram was 16G 2400T and change it to 32G 2133T
is there any advice?
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Initialization 91 stuck of Supermicro OEM (HPE) GPU server
I just set up HPE SX40 (Supermicro SYS-1029GQ-TVRT).
The system stuck on boot with "initializing ... 91".
I tried some crude test like remove all memory, and got relevant error message.
So,
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Cabling for SAS controller and SuperMicro BPN-SAS-825TQ
I´ve managed to get one of the SuperMicro low-end server to my lab. It is chassis 825TQ-R740LPB with a BPN-SAS-825TQ backplane. The specification document is saying, that this backplane is SAS ...
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Supermicro - XFS (snumbd6d): log I/O error -5
So, We have a supermicro server with the next hardware configuration:
CentOS 7
Softraid (because this supermicro configuration didn't support hardware raid..)
/ Partition is RAID 10 and the rest one ...
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Cannot access IPMI anymore. Both IPMIView and ipmitool show "Insufficient privilege level"
I got a Supermicro 5019TR-GF server recently.
At first I can connect to the IPMI via IPMIView or ipmitool to control the server, but today I cannot connect to the server anymore. The ipmitool show:
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Reset IPMI IP on Supermicro server with videocard died
Today I face a server which videoport is dead (no picture when monitor connects to even on reboot), but this server has IPMI.
The problem is, the IP of IPMI is set to some dummy value (I was told that ...
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SAS3 HBA / Backplane Issue
I have the Supermicro BPN-SAS3-743A backplane hooked up to a AOC-S3008L-L8i RAID card in IT mode using a regular mini SAS SFF-8643 to SFF-8643 cable bought from Amazon. When I'm in the HBA bios, the ...
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What are the risks of using old server hardware?
I bought a used Supermicro server (2011) to host my own web services. I installed Debian 10 Buster and setup the LAMP server. Ports 80 and 443 are only accessible from the internet behind NAT.
The ...
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How do we isolate the operating system from accessing the IPMI interfaces on Supermicro MBI-6219G-T blade servers?
We have managed Supermicro servers in the past which have independent IPMI/BMC network interfaces. These IPMI interfaces are all connected to separate VLANS. With those servers the operating system ...
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How to know which BMCs are supported by OpenBMC (open source BMC)?
Any idea how to get list of supported BMCs for OpenBMC https://github.com/openbmc/openbmc ?
For example I have a motherboard (X8SIL-F) with Nuvoton WPCM450 BMC.
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Supermicro set boot order via bios config file
I've exported the bios config from one system via sum:
sum -i IP -u USER -p PASS -c GetCurrentBiosCfg > bios_config.xml
Now I want to apply this config to other machines of the same type:
sum -i ...
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Supermicro X9SCD won't enter BIOS (error code: AB)
I've just flashed the BIOS of 3 different X9SCD motherboards, all housed within different MicroCloud chassis. I've done this hundreds of times, with this exact BIOS version (x9scd8.612), with no ...
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Why does my server have a dedicated IPMI port?
My SuperMicro server has 3 Ethernet ports that break down like this:
I never use the dedicated IPMI port while accessing IPMI capabilities perfectly well via LAN1 along with the installed OS. I use ...
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Supermicro BMC IPMI - How to get hardware specs without OS access
This is my first post in Serverfault for the purpose of trying to get the hardware specs for our supermicro 1U rack server so here it goes:
I have downloaded the IPMIView, IPMICFG, and SMCIPMI ...
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Supermicro stuck on boot
I have a server with X10DRL-i running dual Intel Xeon E5-2630 V3 and everything works great.
Today I tried to swap both CPUs for Intel Xeon E5-2680 v4 but server is unable to boot - it is stuck on &...
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SuperMicro Servers can't detect ALL Disk attached to SAS
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 BIOS not detect the SAS drive. FreeNas OS not detect SAS Storge.
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supermicro IPMI web interface through shared LAN is blocking the operating system
I recently hosted a supermicro 4029 server in an IDC facility. The IDC provides a static IP, subnet mask and DNS. After setting up the internet in CentOS without problem, I then proceed with setting ...
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How to use 12 HDDs with the Supermicro BPN-SAS3-826EL1 backplane?
I have got a chassis with the Supermicro BPN-SAS3-826EL1 backplane. This backplane allows 12 HDDs to be attached. However, I obviously haven't yet understood the cabling between the HBA and the ...