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I have a Supermicro X9SCL+-F motherboard that I flashed a beta BIOS to, then the flash went bad when I tried to flash back to the latest stable. I am attempting to recover using their SUPER.ROM recovery from a flash drive without success.
I read in the manual that if I hold down Ctrl +Home while…
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I have a Supermicro X9SCA-F serverboard and I'm trying to secure Super Doctor III IPMI by using SSL. I generated my own certs (done this many times before), uploaded via the web interface, then it said it needed to restart & I clicked OK, but it never came back up. Right now it's not listening…
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I'm trying to access a SuperMicro IPMI card that is behind an OpenBSD bridged firewall.
A couple pieces of information:
The OpenBSD firewall itself has a SuperMicro IPMI that I can access across the internet.
The IPMI I'm trying to reach can be reached from behind the firewall.
My gateway does…
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I have several dozen Supermicro servers which use the Supermicro Embedded BMC. The documentation on that page suggests that I can access the Serial Over LAN (Serial Console) over SSH:
SMASH and CLP support
SSH based SOL
Power control of the server
But when I ssh into my BMC, all I…
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We got a supermicro server, http://www.supermicro.com/products/system/1u/5016/sys-5016i-ur.cfm, according spec, the server supports up to 32G memory when using ECC Register Memory.
However, when I tried the dmidecode command, it says 24G max memory:
[root@c1 ~]# dmidecode | grep Maximum
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Dear All,
I would appreciate any help here. I have a Supermicro 6016T-NTRF running ESXI 4 fine. The health monitors are showing up so ESXI is picking up the IPMI status. But I cannot connect to the host remotely via the dedicated IPMI nic. When the machine is in bios section I CAN connect but as…
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I am running a dell poweredge 1950 with 4 nic cards. 1 is bonded to SAN #1 on 192.168.90.xx. The second SAN is on a separate network - 192.168.7.xx The network adapter can view the ip range of the san and the NIC can be pinged from 192.168.7.xx range. vswitch1 and vswitch2 are configured identically…
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It seems basic, but there's confusion about the patching strategy needed to manually update standalone VMWare ESXi hosts. The VMWare vSphere blog attempts to explain this, but it's still not clear.
From the blog:
Say Patch01 includes updates for the following VIBs: "esxi-base", "driver10" and "driver…
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We have a FreeBSD 64bit running on a esxi 4.1, the hardware platform is a DELL R710 with 2 x 56xx (intel 6core cpu) and 48 GB ram.
The FreeBSD vm is very slow, when we compiles/builds something on it, it takes 5 minuts and it says "build time 18 seconds.".
There's no vmtools installed on the vm.
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I am trying to manage virtual machines running on a VMware ESXi host using Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager.
I was able to add the ESXi machine using the "Add VMware VirtualCenter server" option, but can't access any of the VMs on the datastore associated with this ESXi server.
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