OK - I'm testing unRAID and I can't get to square one as there is no way in BIOS to turn off the additional onboard lan ports (not that I can see) on the MB I bought (see below). I can disable them using a jumper I think but this board has 3 lan ports, 1 dedicated to IPMI which would be nice to preserve - I'm installing unRAID 4.7 AiO but when I log into root IFCONFIG does not return a valid IP address. So is there some way to get this working without disabling a lan port? Just seems a waste to disable available ports that could be used and being a jumper only disable once it is installed in the racks it mean pulling it out just to re-enable the ports. I guess if I leap straight to ESXi running unRAID it would work but I at least wanted to test unRAID first for suitability.

 

The final purpose of this server is to act as nearline storage archive in my video production business - tape is dead and just about everything is IT media based so storage needs are growing at a rapid rate and I can use this to move media off my much faster fibre channel SAN and Thecus N5500 on to this box adding drives as the need arises..it will also have to coexist on an SBS2003 domain, with the eventual plan to move email to the cloud and use WHS2011 and remove the existing SBS 2003 box and the locally hosted Exchange.

 

PS - I know the ports work as I've also been trying out WHS2011 on this box.

 

I've built the following...

 

SUPERMICRO MBD-X9SCM-F-O

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813182253

 

Corsair TX-650 V2 650W Enthusiast Series Power Supply - ATX12V v2.31 & EPS12V v2.92 - 80+ BRONZE Certified - 140mm Cooling Fan (CMPSU-650TXv2)

http://www.mwave.com.au/sku-34040736-Corsair_TX-650_V2_650W_Enthusiast_Series_Power_Supply_-_ATX12V_v2_31_amp_EPS12V_

 

Kingston ValueRAM - Memory - 4 GB ( 2 x 2 GB ) - DIMM 240-pin - DDR3 - 1066 MHz / PC3-8500 - CL7 - 1.5 V - unbuffered - ECC - Intel Memory Validation Program (KVR1066D3E7SK2/4GI)

http://www.mwave.com.au/search.asp?CartID=mAU@3OYCP3YREKKJMD7DX66HKLGW72RFHUFIRYDME4N21L8KZ3&search=37140278&page=1

 

Intel Core i3 2100 Dual Core Processor - Socket LGA1155 - 3.1GHz - 2x 256KB L2 / 3MB Shared L3 Cache - Integrated Graphics - Sandy Bridge (BX80623I32100)

http://www.mwave.com.au/search.asp?CartID=mAU@3OYCP3YREKKJMD7DX66HKLGW72RFHUFIRYDME4N21L8KZ3&search=19010219&page=1

 

Norco 4224 case with 120mm fan wall

 

2x SUPERMICRO AOC-SASLP-MV8 PCI Express x4 Low Profile SAS RAID Controller

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816101358

 

PPlus 5 Seagate 2tB green drives and 2TB WD20EARS

 

Thanks John

 

 

Have you tested all of the ports? I.e., try each one in turn: connect the port and the reboot.

I have the same board, and am just in the process of finishing up my build.  Having said that though, I have yet to try the IPMI feature set, though I believe that it is OS independent.

 

In any case, only one of the LAN ports currently have a driver that works with UnRaid (and ESX for that matter).  The port that is functional within Unraid is the one that is closest to the IPMI network port (further from the PCIe slots.

 

Hope this helps

No I didn't test other ports - after reading another thread where Tomm hopped in and said unRAID did not currently support more than one LAN port and that the other ports would have to be disabled in BIOS.. doh! will try when I get home tonight. When I'm completely finished this build will post results..

 

thanks for your help guys

 

John

I've got a motherboard that has 2 ports on it. What I did was plug in the one I had planned on using into a router that'd assign a DHCP, found out which one it was, then configured it for the static IP address.

 

I then ignored the other one.

 

Personally I see no reason to have IPMI on a separate nic *unless* your admin group is on a separate subnet.

No I didn't test other ports - after reading another thread where Tomm hopped in and said unRAID did not currently support more than one LAN port and that the other ports would have to be disabled in BIOS.. doh! will try when I get home tonight. When I'm completely finished this build will post results..

 

thanks for your help guys

 

John

 

This is not strictly true. Multiple ethernet ports can be configured manually. Unless you know how to do this it is simpler to disable unused ports.