Questions tagged [supermicro]

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

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Server freezes without kernel panic

We are running a KVM node which is crashing irregularly showing a very strange behaviour. The interesting thing is that we already had this problem with another node which crashed every 1-2 weeks. As we could not find a hardware issue, we began to…
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Double UPS on high load during power down

To sketch the situation : a bunch of servers (~15 going from 4u to 1u, some redudant PSU some single) 2 UPS (1 APC I can read using apcupsd) 2 PDU So I came upon this situation, and I honestly have no idea what the best solution would be. We have…
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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 get SOL working past the boot loader.
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Change Boot Order Remotely

Using Windows Share, I was able to connect media in order to do an OS reload using IPMI. However, I also need to change the boot order of the server. My issue is that I cannot seem to get to the BIOS in time using the IPMI. By the time the KVM in…
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Anyone have any experiences with SuperMicro Layer 3 Switches (SSE-G48-TG4 in particular)

We use a lot of SuperMicro gear, and we just noticed that SuperMicro now has a Layer 3 managed switch. I am interested in using it in a top of the rack application. As with most of SuperMicro stuff, the price is right. I can't seem to find anyone…
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Preseed automatic partitioning

I'm using the following partman settings for automated installs of VMs for some years now: d-i partman-auto/disk string /dev/sda d-i partman-auto/method string regular d-i partman-lvm/device_remove_lvm boolean true d-i partman-md/device_remove_md…
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Unable to Mount ISO Virtual Media over IPMI/iKVM Viewer

I have a single Supermicro Host that has just gone into colo with dedicated IPMI. I have assigned it a static internet facing IP for remote management. I have configured the IPMI to only be accessible from 2 IPs (Office dedicated + VPN) and the…
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Supermicro Server fails to boot from NVMe SSD

I have a SuperMicro server with an NVMe boot drive and an additional SSD for data. I was attempting to install ubuntu on the NVMe boot drive and even though the installation succeeds and the correct boot device is set in the BIOS, the server does…
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Difference between SAS multilane, direct-attached HDD and expander backplane?

What's the difference between multilane, direct-attached HDD and expander for SAS backplanes? Supermicro chassis description page Direct attached HDD backplane (TQ version), multilane backplane (A version) and expanders' backplane (E1, E2 versions)…
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IPMI: LAN Parameter Data does not match

I have a SupoerMicro board with ipmi, where I have some problems in communication using the LAN channel. The server is running PFsense (netbsd) and I can sendt commands to the local ipmi controller by using IPMI tool. In the beginning I was able to…
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Power Usage via IPMI or BIOS or?

Is it possible to check the power usage of an entire machine via IPMI, BIOS, or any other option? I have done some searching but no results have came up yet. PDUs only show the total usage, so this would be an interesting way of seeing which…
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Supermicro + IPMI + FreeBSD: Kernel prints at 1-bps

I am running FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE. The machine is a Supermicro 5015M with a IPMI 2.0 daughterboard. When I boot this host, the boot process proceeds fine. I see the BIOS, the RAID BIOS, the first and second stage boot loader and the Stage Three,…
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Configuring RADIUS or LDAP on Supermicro (ATEN) IPMI

I'm trying to get our new server, a X8DTN+-F's IMPI configured to talk to our authentication servers. The two choices are LDAP and RADIUS. I'm debugging this by looking at packet captures, as it seems the IPMI stuff doesn't log anything. I first…
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What are the differenced between SuperMicro console terminal types ANSI, VT100 and VT-UTF8

I tried to find a comparison between various terminal types configurable on SuperMicro console to serial BIOS redirection but I was not able to find any. Can someone make a brief comparison of these? Defaults seems to be ANSI which is likely to be…
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8 GPU machine freezes

We have a SuperMicro GPU server with: 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2660 v4 @ 2.00GHz 512GB memory more than enough disk space X10DRG-O+-CPU (BIOS Version : 2.0a [current]) X9DRG-O-PCIE PCI-E expander card 8x GTX 1080 It is setup with Ubuntu 16.04.1…
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