Supermicro | Products | Motherboards | Xeon® Boards | X9SRi-3F

I still like this board: Supermicro | Products | Motherboards | Xeon® Boards | X9SRi-3F.

It has been in a storage solution for a while, uses OK power, has not many SATA ports, but enough slots for expansion cards, and comes with two network connections and 8 slots which I fitted with a total of 256 gibibyte of memory.

Some links, as SuperMicro tends to hide them behind POST requests:

• Manual: [WayBack] MNL-1284.pdf
• Quick Reference Guide: [WayBack] QRG-1284.pdf
• BIOS:
  • [WayBack] disclaimer.cfm?SoftwareItemID=5714
    • [WayBack] 5714/X9SRi8_529.zip
  • [WayBack] 5714/X9SRI_X9SRE_BIOS_3_3_release_notes.pdf
• IPMI Firmware Downloads:
  • [WayBack] disclaimer.cfm?SoftwareItemID=2777
    • [WayBack] 2777/SMT_X9_319.zip
• Driver CD:
  • [WayBack] ISO_Download.cfm?Target=CDR-X9-UP/
    • [WayBack] CDR_Images/CDR-X9-UP/
    • [WayBack] CDR-X9-UP_1.22_for_Intel_X9_UP_platform.iso
    • [WayBack] CDR-X9-UP_1.23_for_Intel_X9_UP_platform.iso
    • [WayBack] CDR-X9-UP_1.23_for_Intel_X9_UP_platform.zip
    • [WayBack] CheckSum.txt

Note that IPMI over je Java Web Start.app runs into certificate signing issues, so better use Supermicro IPMIViewer for this:

• [WayBack] Supermicro IPMI Utilities | Supermicro Server Management Utilities | Products – Super Micro Computer, Inc.
• [WayBack] Supermicro Intelligent Management | Supermicro Server Management Utilities | Products – Super Micro Computer, Inc.
  • [WayBack] disclaimer.cfm?url=https://www.supermicro.com/wftp/utility/IPMIView/
    • [WayBack] IPMIView/
    • [WayBack] IPMIView/CheckSum.txt
    • [WayBack] IPMIView/IPMIView20.pdf
    • [WayBack] IPMIView/IPMIView_MicroBlade_User_Guide.pdf
    • [WayBack] IPMIView/IPMIView_SuperBlade_User_Guide.pdf
    • [WayBack] IPMIView/Linux/
      • [WayBack] IPMIView/Linux/CheckSum.txt
      • [WayBack] IPMIView/Linux/IPMIView_2.15.0_build.190109_bundleJRE_Linux.tar.gz
      • [WayBack] IPMIView/Linux/IPMIView_2.15.0_build.190109_bundleJRE_Linux_x64.tar.gz
    • [WayBack] IPMIView/Windows/
      • [WayBack] IPMIView/Windows/CheckSum.txt
      • [WayBack] IPMIView/Windows/IPMIView_2.15.0_build.190109_Windows.exe
      • [WayBack] /IPMIView/Windows/IPMIView_2.15.0_build.190109_Windows.zip
  • [WayBack] disclaimer_manuals.cfm?url=https://www.supermicro.com/wftp/utility/IPMIView/IPMIView20.pdf
    • [WayBack] IPMIView20.pdf

IPMIView links via:

• [WayBack] java – How to run IPMI consoles now that NPAPI plugins are no longer supported? – Server Fault

The errors when running the KVM Console from your web browser are waved away by SuperMicro, but more and more people bump into them:

• [WayBack] FAQ Entry | Online Support | Support – Super Micro Computer, Inc.: In regards to the JNLP which downloads for the Remote Console window.
  The certificate belongs to Super Micro and it is used when the JNLP application is built to digitally sign the application. It is then checked by Java before running the application to make sure it can be trusted.
• [WayBack] FAQ Entry | Online Support | Support – Super Micro Computer, Inc.: “Unable to find certificate in Default Keystore for validation.”

–jeroen