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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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temperature of the Broadcom 10Gb LAN controller (BCM57416) on Supermicro motherboards

I am looking for information from people with systems with Supermicro motherboards with a Broadcom 10Gb NIC controller chip (BCM57416). Specifically, I would like to find out the NIC temperature IPMI ...
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Mixed 10Gbps/25Gpbs on Supermicro AOC-A25G-b2SM (BCM57414)

Working on installing some new Supermicro servers and they're configured with a AOC-A25G-b2SM NIC (2xSFP28 ports). Based on what we can support with our switches, we were planning to do a primary link ...
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Supermicro X7DCA-L memory errors when installing new ram [closed]

I'm hoping that someone may be able to shed a bit of light on this for me. I recently picked up a used supermicro server to use as part of my development workflow. When I picked it up, it had 8GB of ...
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Supermicro IPMIView KVM Console does not work at all

I can't get the Supermicro IPMIView version 2.* (any of them) to launch the KVM Console either in the IPMIView windows program nor any browser. Java, is installed (version 8, update 131) and I'm ...
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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 ...
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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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PCIe bifurcation on Supermicro X10SRL-F

The motherboard supports PCIe bifurcation, but unfortunately the manual does not explain how to enable it and the BIOS menu options are poorly labeled. (not asking, just posting here to share what I ...
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Supermicro X11DPi-NT motherboard. Pinout for JD1 to connect external speaker

I have a Supermicro X11DPi-NT motherboard, and having trouble connecting an external speaker. JD1 is supposed be the conector for the external speaker, but I am having trouble finding the pinout. If ...
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Set my spare disk to be online

How can I set my spare disk to be online? I`ve tried /opt/MegaRAID/storcli/storcli64 /c0/e0/s13 set online, but I got an error 255 Operation not allowed. Thanks. >0:13 13 GHS - 3.637 TB SATA ...
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Is it possible to reset the password on a SuperMicro IPMI interface?

Is it possible to reset the password on a SuperMicro IPMI interface? My motherboard is model X8STI-F.
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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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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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LSI MegaRaid configuring for MDADM RAID disk set

I have an 8 bay SATA/SAS LSI MegaRAID controller and have to mount a set of drives that were assembled RAID 6 by mdadm on a non RAID controlled other device (both supermicro). Is it possible to ...
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Supermicro server head won't power on

We have a SuperMicro server that won't power up. Specs: Chassis: CSE-847BE1C-R1K28LPB Motherboard: X10DRH-iT Processor: 2x Intel Xeon E5-2643v4 6 Core 3.4GHz Memory: 128GB DDR4 (4 x 32GB ) Backplane: ...
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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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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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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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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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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 ...
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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 ...
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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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Supermicro IPMI and Windows Share

I am trying to do a Windows Share for a Supermicro IPMI. I go to "Virtual Media" and then "CD-ROM image". I need to enter: Share to host: Path to Image: User: Password: I know to enter my Windows ...
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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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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 ...
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ipmitool sensor: does not detect backup power supply

Why doesn't ipmitool detect my second power supply? I have 2 powersupplies plugged into my machine, but calling ipmitool sensor only shows PS1: :~$ sudo ipmitool sensor |grep PS PS1 Status | ...
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SuperMicro X10DRi and AMD FirePro W7000 -> No video output

Just received a shiny SuperMicro SuperServer for our NOC. The unit comes with a SuperMicro X10DRi motherboard and two AMD FirePro W7000; they are NOT CrossFired or otherwise linked. At this point, ...
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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 (...
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SuperMicro AOC-STGN-I2S labeled Coraid. Can't install drivers and use lan card

Recently I purchased two lan cards SuperMicro AOC-STGN-I2S (Two 10Gb\s SFP+ ports). One of them work OK under Windows (my test PC) and under FreeBSD on my server. Second one is exactly the same card ...
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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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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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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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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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Supermicro IPMI sensors not present after shutdown

i have a supermicro machine with IPMI, and normally the sensors would read the temperature even if the machine is shutdown. Now i had to update the BIOS and the firmware and now, if you shutdown the ...
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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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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 ...
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Having trouble to connect sshd on CoreOS sometimes

I have 12 node of bare-metal CoreOS cluster (on SuperMicro Blade). Every nodes was installed with same image and cloud-config. (Stable 717.3.0) The problem is that I fail to connect sshd frequently, ...
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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 ...
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Serial Over LAN on FreeBSD with SuperMicro X9-SCM-F

How can I setup Serial-Over-Lan (SOL) on FreeBSD with a SuperMicro X9-SCM-F motherboard? There are a few resources out there but they contradict each other, are unclear, and don’t actually allow me to ...
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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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