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I have a Supermicro X11SSH-LN4F housed in a Fractal Design Define Mini C. The cases comes with two Dynamic X2 G-12 3-pin fans. I removed the front fan. I’d now like to replace the rear fan with a compatible PWM fan but I’m concerned the FAN-0124L4 may be too loud Are there other more quiet 120mm options?

Hello Guys, a couple days ago I ran a problem. I bought a SuperMicro Server but the Licence Key for IPMI was rubbed off. So I Programmed a KeyGen to Calculate the Licence Key (It is dependend on the MAC of the IPMI Interface) and though I share the Software with you guys. Maybe it helps someone out <file deleted>

Hi All, I'm after some recommendations for a case, however my motherboard is very big. My motherboard is a Supermicro X9DRi-LN4F+ which is EE-ATX (not a standard!) it's 34.7x33cm (13.68x13 inches) Now it mostly fits in an ATX case except that it extends beyond the IO shield by about 4cm. (I've attached a picture) Normal ATX motherboards don't, and herein lies the problem. Most cases don't have that extension room, so I'm after some suggestions. I'm currently in a Corsair Air 540, I use the work "in" loosely as the two Radiators are outside (see the other picture) they do not fit otherwise because they would interfere with the RAM. Obviously this isn't ideal, and why I'm after a new case. I'm fine with drilling holes for the standoffs, but would rather not be doing major modifications. It needs to fit; The motherboard 2x Corsair H115i Pro 1x 5.25 bay for SSD caddy minimum 4x HDD Budget is up to about £150, and I'm happy with both new or used, there are almost no brand new components in the PC anyway. Also, yes, I realise its a bit of a rats nest, one of the hard drives isn't even mounted. I do plan to sort this out when it rebuilt. Thanks for your help in advance

https://it.slashdot.org/story/18/06/07/2127248/severe-firmware-vulnerabilities-found-in-popular-supermicro-server-products Security researchers have uncovered vulnerabilities affecting the firmware of Supermicro server products. Discovered by the Eclypsium team, these vulnerabilities affect both older and newer models of Supermicro products, but the vendor is working on addressing the issues. These vulnerabilities do not put the safety of Supermicro products at direct risk, as they can only be exploited via malicious software/code (aka malware) already running on a system. Nevertheless, exploiting these vulnerabilities allows the malware to obtain an almost permanent foothold on infected systems by gaining the ability to survive server OS reinstalls by hiding in the hardware's firmware. Malware can modify Descriptor Region settings The first of the flaws uncovered by Eclypsium researchers is not an actual vulnerability in the firmware's code, but in the configuration of some Supermicro products. Researchers say that some of these products come with firmware that uses an improper setting for the "Descriptor Region." The Descriptor Region is a security feature of Intel-based chipsets. This setting tells the chipset what areas of its own flash storage external parties can access to store data such as firmware or configuration files. According to Eclypsium researchers, some Supermicro products had an incorrectly set Descriptor Region that allowed software running on the OS (such as malware) to modify the Descriptor Region and then tamper with local firmware. "Eclypsium researchers have observed vulnerable descriptor access controls through runtime examination of various server firmware models," the Eclypsium team wrote in a report published today. "This manual analysis uncovered multiple server models that allowed writes to the flash descriptor from host software. According to Supermicro, some of the products we reviewed date back to 2008 and are currently EOL and no longer supported." No firmware authentication for some products But while modifying the Descriptor Region setting may be possible on some Supermicro products, tampering with the local firmware isn't as easy as it sounds, as several security mechanisms prevent malicious actors from altering a computer or server's most important code. Here is where the second series of issues that the Eclypsium team discovered came into play. "We have observed insecure firmware updates through runtime examination of various systems. This manual analysis uncovered that Supermicro X9DRi-LN4F+ and X10SLM-F systems did not securely authenticate firmware updates," the research team said. "We confirmed this result by intentionally modifying the binary in official Supermicro firmware images and observing that the system firmware still accepted and installed the modified package." No firmware rollback protection But the issues didn't stop here, and the Eclypsium team also noted a lack of anti-rollback protections for firmware images. This anti-rollback protection is crucial for situations where the vendor checks for firmware authenticity. A firmware anti-rollback protection would prevent attackers from replacing newer firmware with an older (legitimate) firmware image that contains flaws that attackers can exploit and gain a foothold on all-of-a-sudden vulnerable systems. Supermicro working on fixes Eclypsium says it notified Supermicro about all the issues they discovered in the firmware of their products back in January. "Supermicro has been supportive of our efforts and prioritized understanding and mitigating the issues we have discovered," Eclypsium says, "For the current generation of products, Supermicro indicated that they have already implemented a signed firmware update for several products and are making this update generally available for all future systems. "Similarly, for OEM customers who require rollback capability for their customized and locked firmware versions to ensure business continuity, Supermicro indicated that they are supporting anti-rollback as an option for their X11 generation firmware. "The SPI flash descriptor is read-only on most boards and we are helping Supermicro identify specific models where this may be incorrectly set." Impacted models For owners of Supermicro server hardware, Eclypsium has released instructions on how to check the descriptor access controls of their own systems. These procedures require installing and running the CHIPSEC Framework, a tool co-created by one of Eclypsium founders while working for Intel. All the server owner has to do is to run the following command: chipsec_main -m common.spi_access If this test fails, then the current descriptor values offer no protection, because they can be changed. If an attacker were to exploit insecure firmware updates, the obvious goal would be to somehow alter the firmware. This enables very stealthy and persistent malware that can bypass many security controls. However, it may be possible to detect such malware (if it has not taken explicit steps to prevent this). To defend against these attacks, it is possible to collect hashes of firmware modules. These can be validated against a whitelist from firmware provided by the vendor. If unexpected changes are discovered, expert analysis will be needed to manually assess them. Bleeping Computer has sent a request for comment to Supermicro days before this article's publication. We asked Supermicro to confirm the Eclypsium research and inquired for a list of Supermicro platforms affected by the reported security issues, but we have not heard back before this article's publication time. Until Supermicro responds or publishes an official security advisory with a list of affected models, Eclypsium CEO and Founder Yuriy Bulygin was kind enough to share with Bleeping Computer the list of Supermicro products they believe to be affected. "For the missing UEFI update protections, it appears that a majority or all of X8, X9, X10 generation server products, and a majority of X11 generation server products are affected," Bulygin told Bleeping Computer via email. "We don’t know exact number of affected models but we found 1184 unique firmware images for at least 233 unique X8-X11 server models." "For the flash descriptor issue we found close to 500 firmware images with this issue which translates to about 110 different models (some of them may be old). The list is below:" X11SSZ X11SSV X11SSQL X11SSQ X11SSN X11SRM X11SRA X11SBA X11SAT X11SAE_M X11SAE X10SRW X10SRM X10SRL X10SRI X10SRH X10SRG X10SRD X10SRA X10SDVT X10SDVF X10SDE X10SDDF X10SBA X10QRH X10DSN X10DSCP X10DSC X10DRX X10DRWN X10DRW X10DRUX X10DRUL X10DRU X10DRTS X10DRTPS X10DRTL X10DRTH X10DRTB X10DRT X10DRS X10DRLN X10DRLC X10DRL X10DRI1 X10DRH4 X10DRH X10DRGO X10DRGH X10DRG X10DRFR X10DRFG X10DRFF X10DRDL X10DRD X10DRC X10DGO X10DDWN X10DDWI X10DDW4 X10DDW3 X10DAX X10DALI X10DAL X10DAI B10DRT B10DRI B10DRG X9SAE X9DRTH X9DRGQF X9DRFFP X9DRF X9DBL X8SIU X8SIT X8SIL X8SIE X8SIA K1SPI K1SPES C9X299 C7Z97OC C7Z97MF C7Z87OC C7Z370L C7Z370I C7Z270P C7Z270M C7Z270L C7Z270CG C7Z270C C7Z170OCE C7Z170O C7Z170 C7X99OC C7Q270 C7H270 C7B250 B1SD2TF B1SA4 B1DRI A2SAV A2SAP A2SAN A1SRM A1SAM A1SAI1 A1SAI A1SA ALL Credit goes to its original authors https://blog.eclypsium.com/2018/06/07/firmware-vulnerabilities-in-supermicro-systems/ https://it.slashdot.org/story/18/06/07/2127248/severe-firmware-vulnerabilities-found-in-popular-supermicro-server-products https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/firmware-vulnerabilities-disclosed-in-supermicro-server-products/

I like to mess around and learn about computers and such and recently decided to build a small home server. I'm hoping to push myself to learn more about linux and a couple other things relating to having a server. Currently I am set on building a server with dual Xeon X5540's and was planning on using a Supermicro X8DTT-F board. After doing some research I am a little stumped on the type of psu I should be using for this board. Although this wouldn't be the right area to ask about motherboards if anyone has any other motherboard they would recommend, (if it would make more sense to use a different motherboard other than the supermicro) feel free to suggest that as well. TLDR: Dual Xeon E5540 server using a Supermicro X8DTT-F. What power supplies are compatible with this? Or should I look for another motherboard? Suggestions?

I'm looking to replace a couple Intel s1200spsr motherboards after weeks of discussion with Intel and a refusal to support Noctua fans. I already have a X11SSH-LN4F that is fully compatible with the Noctua NH-U12S. Does anyone have experience with other Supermicro boards and Noctua CPU coolers? I'm particularly interested in knowing if the X11SSL-F is compatible with the Noctua NH-U12S. I reached out to Supermicro support and they say the firmware of the X11SSH-F/LN4F and X11SSL-F is the same.

So I'm looking to put a server in our server rack where I work with a plex server and eventually some other things. Maybe a FreeNAS backup or something. Anyways he has an extra one with specs as follows, is it a good deal? 1x E5 2690 32GB DDR3 1600 x9srl-f motherboard 10 hot swap bays 10Gb NIC LSI 9265-8i $400

Hello everyone! I bought on eBay, 4 Super Micro X8DTT-F-SG007 Rev. 2.0 Motherboards for making some practice around Virtual Environments, NAS storage, etc. Now, I'm in the point that I need some help to find out what I'm making wrong, I'm not being able to turn-on any motherboard. I bought 6 pairs of Intel Xeon E5540 that should work without issues. Also, I'm using 8GB DDR3 ECC 1333 MHz memory, recommended by the seller. I have a PCB designed to convert an standard ATX PSU to the proprietary 20-pin connector required by this motherboard. I tested the four motherboards, with different combinations of processors and ram trying to determine if there was something with them. However, in all the tests, the result was a motherboard that only blinks the BMC LED when power is present. I even replaced one of the batteries because when I measured it, the voltage was about 2.99V, but again, the result was the same, only the BMC LED blink. According to a post I read (I don't have the link), clearing the CMOS may help, but not in this case. Also, I verify that the power supply jumper was not set in Hot-swap mode, just like this -> Link to youtube So, I'm running out of ideas. Do you guys have any suggestion? Thanks in advance! Best regards, Efel

First time posting on this forum so sorry in advence... also im bad in english Trying to build a pc with 6282 opteron basically, pc booting with a 6174 opteron updated the bios to 3.5c on my h8dgi-f supermicro motherboard change the 6174 for 2 opteron 6282 pc not booting error is 5short and 1long beep wich i think means no ram f*ck around with the ram but nothing pleaze halp

looks like 1 of my servers took a poo with a Supermicro H8QG6-F Quad Socket G34, rebooted and it never came back, powers on, fans spin, power led and all other lights dont turn on like they should, i know linus had a board not sure what he did with it and i am lacking funding right now to get a replacment so i am at a major loss any help on things i should try besides taking all the CPU's out and ram and PCIe cards as i've already swapped them around to no luck

So I have this SuperMicro CSE-743 (I think it's called that) and it comes with this power supply that has screw mounts only on the top, bottom, and one side, as opposed to other PSUs that have screw holes on the back (Pictured below). Now since this is a SuperMicro case with the proprietary PSU, I'm ASSUMING I'm going to either have to use the one it came with (Which I am hesitant to do because idk how old it is), or buy another SuperMicro PSU that happens to line up. My questions here: Can I replace the PSU with another SuperMicro PSU or is it proprietary specifically for the case? Are there any other ways to go about mounting a PSU in a case like this? With the mounting screws being more inside the case than on the back panel?

4-way SLI TITAN V Possible? I would love to see someone push the limits with this board! Thoughts?

Looking for a Supermicro barebones for a NAS running FreeNAS. I'd like at least 4 drive bays and I'd like everything but the CPU and RAM included, as well as a PCIe slot for a x8 10G NIC, but otherwise I'd just like whatever one is the best value. The X8SIL-F looks decent, but I think I can get a better deal than the one I was looking at ($120 including shipping). An eBay link to a listing would be greatly appreciated. And shipping needs to be included in the price because those servers are heavy and shipping is expensive (zip is 60658 in the US if you'd like to calculate). Thanks in advance for any help.

I have a Supermicro X9SRL-F motherboard, According to the manufacture the slowest tested ram is DDR3L-1333 ECC . I have come across a deal for 96GB (16GBx6) DDR3L-1066 ECC ram. Would the server board work or should I pass on the memory?

Putting together my 846 and had a few questions. I see lots of people recommend the 0074L4 fans as drop in replacements on the 846 mid-wall (to quiet things down a bit) but looking at the compatibility matrix on SM's site, these are only listed as compatible with the 743 chassis. What are suitable replacement fans for the exhaust and mid-wall if I want to bring noise levels down? (Or will these work in the 846?) I'd rather go with stock, drop-in stuff and not hack together a fan wall. My i7 7700K CPU is actively cooled and I have 18 drives I need to install. They are a mix of 7200RPM and 5900RPM drives. For the exhaust fans, is it OK to use a Y-splitter and plug both into the splitter and the splitter into a single, 4 pin connector onto my motherboard or do I risk burning something out due to the high speed of these fans? My board has 5, 4 pin connectors. I need 1 for my CPU, 1 for the dual exhaust fans and the other 3 were going to be used to control the mid-wall fans. I'll be using Linux so maybe I can use a program to dial down the mid-wall fans to reduce noise since I have an actively cooled CPU and consumer grade SATA drives? If using a y-splitter is a very bad idea, I guess I could use a molex connector to power those? I guess another option is to plug the mid-wall fans into the back-plane but I'll lose the ability to maybe control their speed but if I can find some slightly quieter fans, maybe this won't be a problem?! I have a 920-SQ power supply and it's super quiet. I just need to work on trying to quiet down the mid-wall and exhaust fans, if possible, without trading higher HDD temps. Thanks

I'm putting together a machine out of bits that I have lying around and adding a GTX1050 Ti for some (low budget) 1080p gaming. I've noticed that my motherboard has no sound chip (it's a Supermicro X9SRi-F server board) and I don't have a sound card. Will the GTX-1050 Ti show up as a sound device and supply audio over HDMI or do I actually need a sound card?

I recently became the owner of a X9DRT-HF server motherboard from supermicro. However it uses proprietary power connectors, I am not even sure what to search for to find a compatible power supply. Help is greatly appreciated and i am planning to buy used.

I am planing to install 3 Raid controller in slots 2, 5, and 4. Is there a way to install a 10 gbit controller?

I have xeon e3-1230 v6 which is not supported unless the bios is updated. How can I do that w/o CPU? Links and apps are appreciated... Thnx

Hello, New build, although I tested this board (Supermicro X8DTN+) a year ago with older CPUs and the same ram successfully. For the life of me I can not enter the bios or get past the boot screen. Here's some background: After finishing this build a couple days ago, I tried booting it up to get welcomed to the American megatrends post screen being stuck/frozen on "Initializing USB controllers..." With no response from hitting Del on my keyboard. After researching online for people with similar issues, I unplugged everything, took the GPU out and used the onboard VGA, took out all but 1 stick of RAM, swapped out the new CPUs with the older ones confirmed to be working, plugged in a ps/2 keyboard and reset the CMOS (took out battery and jumped the reset CMOS contact pads) to get nowhere. I have a new screen though, I'm pretty sure it's just a bios flash screen from me resetting the CMOS, image of new screen attached. Keyboard still not working, just flashes num/caps/scroll lock lights once upon booting. So I'm here. Looking for some help/guidance as this is taking a while troubleshooting to get nowhere. Thanks for looking or helping with my problem.

I am a Mac person most of the times but I am not afraid to get my feet wet when it comes to Enterprise Gear. But the only problem is I have never owned one of these before so I am having a problem getting it booted up it says select a Boot Drive but I can't find whatever I need to do in the BIOS page to get this thing to fully boot up so if anybody out there can help me out that would be awesome because like I said this is all new too me

I apologize if I use terminology wrong this is effectively my first build. I finished building my server yesterday, and it will turn on to the BIOS but I can not get it to boot from my flash drive which has FreeNAS 11.1 OS on it. The mother board is a SuperMicro X11 SSH-F-O. I have found this thread saying I needed to update the BIOS / firmware (https://forums.freenas.org/index.php?threads/freenas-11-fresh-install-wont-boot.55847/). My motherboard is currently running version R2.0a and the latest version is R2.0c. I downloaded the updated firmware (zip file) on to the same USB drive as the OS and extracted the files from that zip on to the USD drive. I restarting it several times with no luck of updating the firmware. As the end state I would like to run this server as a PLEX media server and also have the operating system run off of the SSD. The hardware for the build consists of: Motherboard: SuperMICRO X11SSH-F-O Power supply: EVGA SuperNOVA 650 CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1230 V5 3.4 ghz LGA 1151 Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) HDD: WD Red 3 TB SSD: WD Black 256 GB M.2 Thank you in advanced.

Yes, I need help updating BIOS. I've done it before, but the way it's done on this board is not the same as consumer boards lol. The reason I'm needing to update is that I'm wanting to use (dual) Xeon X5650's, but the current BIOS level does not support them. It's at a meager rev1.0. I've gotten it to boot with a spare X5560, and can access BIOS features and boot to Windows no problem with it.. Now, going by SuperMicro's instructions, I need to boot to a DOS (command prompt doesn't work with Windows 10) so I've installed FreeDOS on a HDD and attempted to use that to issue the commands but when I enter what they say to do, it doesn't work. I'm likely doing something wrong there as I have very little to no experience operating with DOS. BIOS files: https://www.supermicro.com/support/resources/results.aspx Board: https://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/QPI/5500/X8DTH-6F.cfm If you know what needs to be done, please let me know, as I'd like to get this thing finally up and running ASAP. Thanks in advance, I appreciate it!

I'll am putting together a server build and I am most likely going to use this bare-bones system from Supermicro http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816101794 My question is about processor compatibility. I would like to run a Xeon E3-1200 series processor, namely this one because of the hyper-threading. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=19-117-316 The question arise when I start looking at the graphics option. Newegg and Intel do not list any on board graphics for the E3-1231V3. Will this work in the Supermicro barebones system or do I need to get a cpu with onboard graphics, like the E3-1226. If I wanted to use the E3-1231 would I need to run an external GPU? Are there cheep options? Can I use the GT-640 that I have lying around? Thanks

Preface: This is not a personal build, but rather a build I'm leading for the company I work at. We're a large photography studio here down in Southern California, and we also operate one of the industry leading photography educational sites. I'm sure ya'll can guess who we are! Previous build log I've neglected a couple years ago on OTT: I'm treating this build as if it were my own, and would love to share back with the LTT community as quite a bit of knowledge was learned from Linus's videos regarding network rendering and adobe premiere. We're actually not too far from each other in the way we build our machines, except LTT does get the HW hookups, we don't hah! This will be an on-going project, and I will try and document what I can without divulging too much about our internal configuration, just you know, legal reasons. Phase 1 that will be shared in this post is where everything currently stands, this was doing over the course of a few days to move from our old location to the new location, there's still plenty more to come! Rack 1 Networking gear: 1st switch is an Edge-Core AS4610-52T running Cumulus Linux. This is a 48 port PoE+ switch with 4xSFP+ 10G, and 2x QSFP+ 20G stacking ports, unfortunately the stacking ports are not supported on Cumulus. This switch will be uplinked via 4x10G with VLAN trunks to a core 10/40g switch in Rack 2 shown later. 2nd switch is a Juniper EX3300-48T pulled from our old office, just needed additional 1G ports, as really we'll only have 8-10 devices on PoE+ ( Aruba AP's and PoE+ IPTV cameras ) 3rd switch is Cisco 3560, this switch is for management traffic on Rack 1 ( IPMI, PDU/UPS, back-end management of switches etc ) 4th switch is a Netgear XS712T that I quite hate. But kept so we don't have to add new network cards on 2 of our existing ZFS units as they have 2x10Gbase-T onboard. Below that is a pfsense router. This router will be replaced eventually with a redundant 2 node pfsense cluster running E3-1270V2's with 10G networking for LAN portion, and 2x1G switch to the EX4200-VC cluster on Rack2 for internet uplink the 4 4U servers below are Supermicro 24bay units running ZFS. Each with 128GB of RAM. One of the servers is running Dual ported 12G SAS 8TB Seagate drives with a 400GB NVMe drive as L2arc. Total raw storage ~ 504TB in raw spinny drives Rack #2 Disclaimer: I do not recommend storing liquids on top of IT equipment regardless if they are powered on or not, in hindsight I probably shouldn't have included this picture, but it's already on reddit and I took the flaming.. Lesson learned. 32x 32GB Hynix DDR4 2400 ECC REG dimms for the VM hosts + 8x16GB DDR3 1866 dimms for upgrade of old ZFS nodes ( 64GB to 128GB ) Total ram 1024GB of DDR4 + 128GB of DDR3. It's crazy how dense DRAM is now.. 8x QSFP+ SR4 40GbE optics. Initially was going to go 2x40GbE to the ZFS nodes but ended up running out of 10GbE ports. So 1x 40GbE per ZFS node ( 2x total ) and the rest of the 4x40GbE ports will be split out to 10GbE over PLR40GbE long range 4x10GbE optics to end devices. Top switch: Edge-Core AS5712 running Cumulus Linux again. 48x10GbE SFP+ and 6xQSFP+ 40GbE. Loaded with singlemode FiberStore optics ( not pictured ) Sitting above it is a 72strand MTP trunk cable going to our workstation/postproducer area. Still awaiting the fiber enclosures and LGX cassetes so we can break this out into regular LC/LC SMF patch cords to the switch Below that are two EX4200-48T's sitting in a Virtual Chassis cluster. These will be used primarily for devices that should have a redundant uplink, so I'm spanning LACP across the two "line-cards", this will also be used in LACP for our VM host nodes for Proxmox cluster/networking traffic. Ceph/Storage traffic will be bonded 10GbE for nodes that need it. Again a wild Cisco 3560 10/100 switch with 2x 1GbE LACP uplinks to the EX4200 for management traffic. Rack #2 will eventually be filled with 4x 2U 12bay Supermicro units loaded with SSD's as Ceph nodes, and then some E3 hosts for smaller VM guests. Below that you can spy a Supermicro Fattwin 4U chassis with 4x Dual Xeon V3 nodes. Each node will have 256GB of RAM, and depending on the node they will either have dual E5-2676 V3 or E5-2683 V3 CPUs. There will be minimal if not 0 local storage as all VM storage will live on the Ceph infrastructure. 4x10GbE everywhere. Random photos of our IT room 4x Eaton 9PX 6KvA UPS's, 2 per rack. Fed with 208V AC PDU's are Eaton's G3 managed EMA107-10