Hello everyone,

 

I have to decided to build an Unraid NAS. 

 

I have  purchased the following:

 

Supermicro X10SLM-F, http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813182823&cm_re=Supermicro_X10SLM-F%2c-_-13-182-823-_-Product

3- SUPERMICRO AOC-SAS2LP-MV8 PCI-Express 2.0 x8 SATA / SAS 8-Port Controller Cards http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816101792

NORCO RPC-4224 4U http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811219038

Intel Core i3-4160 Haswell Dual-Core 3.6GHz http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819117447&cm_re=intel_i3_4160-_-19-117-447-_-Product

2- Crucial Ballistix Sport 4GB 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 memory modules http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820148539&cm_re=bls4g3d1609ds1s00-_-20-148-539-_-Product

EVGA SuperNOVA 1000 P2 80PLUS Platinum Certified ATX12V/EPS12V Active PFC 1000W Power Supply http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00EKJQM5E/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o03_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Replacement fan wall bracket and replacement fans and well as Mini SAS 36-Pin SFF-8087 Male to Mini SAS 36-Pin SFF-8087 Male Cables.

 

 

Now,  I would consider myself above average in my IT skill set, not an expert by any means, but totally able to troubleshoot most issues. Not to age myself but I have been building desktops and servers since the days before the internet (Computer Shopper and computer shows...LOL).  However, I am really baffled by the Supermicro motherboard. To make a long story short, it has been a hellish experience. I feel like I am building and old VSLI 286 system! Supermicro's website seems archaic and the technical support has been less the stellar. I really want to use this motherboard because of the IPMI and 3 - PCI 2.0 slots.  So far I had to obtain an older CPU to update the BIOS so it would recognize the i3-4160. The BIOS update worked (which tells me the memory was compatible), but now when the MB boots up it, it shows the  Supermicro's logo with  "IPMI Initializing". It then changes to "System Initializing" with a 15 on the screen and goes no further.  I assume this is a POST code. I have searched the forms and have found some similar experiences but have not found a solution.

 

I would greatly appreciate any advise/guidance/alternate motherboard  (with 3 PCI's for the SAS cards and IPMI) this community could give me.

 

Thanks in advance,

 

Bob 

I believe there is an issue with using more than two of the SAS2LP-MV8 cards, if I remember correctly.  Perhaps it was only a past problem, I do not know for certain, start your search there maybe?

 

Quite the beefy PSU btw, not sure when it will ever go into its efficiency range (then again, with 6 SATA ports on the mobo and the 24 from the controller cards, meh, you just might).

 

Also, from what I read when I was putting together my second server (and I just assumed this when "upgrading" my first which I'm doing today) that when an ECC supported CPU is used, the motherboard will "expect" to see ECC ram, again, from what I recall reading a year ago.  Whether or not this is true and if so, how to change it (I suppose a BIOS setting) is beyond me, as I just choose to go with ECC ram anyway.  After today's "upgrades" of "Tower" are complete, I will have ECC in all servers.

 

Perhaps the above will help you with a starting point, perhaps not at all.  I tried though.

Wrong memory -- you need ECC modules:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820148677

 

I'd also use 8GB modules for a total of 16GB:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820148770

 

 

Thanks,  you were correct. I selected the RAM that Newegg recomended... LOL.

 

Will look more closley next time.

 

Bob

Why that board ?

 

I just built a unraid server and it's works like a dream. This is my build

 

Super Micro uATX - CX10SLH-F

http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon/C220/X10SLH-F.cfm

Kingston 8GB KVR16E11/8I 1600MHz DDR3 ECC Registered CL11

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820239399&cm_re=KVR16E11%2f8I-_-20-239-399-_-Product

Intel Quad Core Xeon CPU E3-1220v3, LGA1150, 3.1GHz 8MB CACHE

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116907&cm_re=Xeon_CPU_E3-1220v3%2c-_-19-116-907-_-Product

 

With this setup ive had no problems at all with unraid what so ever. The things that are great are:

x6 SATA3 onboard - Speed is good, I get 85+ mb/s average speed during parity

• One cache drive
  
• One VM drive (Outside of the array mounted manually via the goscript
  
• Three data drives 3TB each
  

IPMI is a amazing, my unit is a rack, so being able to remote everything is great

PCI passthrough works fine, I have a HVM Sophos box which terminates my net connection) One NIC is used for unraid bridge and virtual nic's and the other is passed throguh to the Sophos FW for my WAN (Green / Red Interfaces)

 

Thats about it really pretty happy with it all in all.

Note that in the configuration bennymundz listed the link to the memory he purchased is correct for that motherboard; but the description he posted ["Kingston 8GB KVR16E11/8I 1600MHz DDR3 ECC Registered CL11"]  is NOT correct ... the motherboard he selected does NOT use registered modules.    As I noted, the modules his link is to are the correct modules (not registered).

 

I don't think anyone would make the mistake of buying from the description, but just wanted to be sure.

 

Just adding my 2-cents because I have been working on this issue for at least half a day without any avail (after searching many forums and about pulling out my hair, including 3 calls to SuperMicro) and FINALLY solved the problem, so I wanted to save others from scouring the internet which did not help me.

Equipment:
  SUPERMICRO 5019S-MN4 1U Rack Server Platform, LGA1151, Intel® C236, DDR4-2133 ECC UDIMM 64GB / 4, SATA RAID 5 / 4, VGA, GbLAN / 4,   IPMI, SuperDOM / 2, M.2 / 1, 350W PSU w/ PFC
  INTEL Xeon E3-1225 v5 Quad-Core 3.3 - 3.7GHz TB, HD Graphics P530, LGA 1151, 8 GT/s DMI, 8MB L3 Cache, DDR4, 14nm, 80W, Retail Processor
  X11SSH-LN4F Supermicro Motherboard
  2 x CRUCIAL 16GB Dual-Rank PC4-17000 DDR4 2133MHz CL15 1.2V SDRAM DIMM, ECC Unbuffered Memory
  INTEL 128GB 600p 2280, 770 / 450 MB/s, 3D NAND TLC, PCIe 3.0 x4 NVMe, M.2 SSD
  WESTERN DIGITAL 8TB Purple Surveillance WD80PUZX, 5400 RPM, SATA 6Gb/s, 128MB cache, 3.5-Inch OEM HDD
  MICROSOFT Windows 10 Pro 64-bit DVD OEM 

Issue 1: Was hanging / rebooting on PEI - - IPMI Initialization frequently on reboot, would not get past unless I cold booted machine by pulling the plug. (big issue b/c it is a used as a recording server for a camera system)
  Issue 1 Fix (after many tries, including replacing memory & power supply):
     1. Downloaded latest IPMI & BIOS firmware from Supermicro Support (https://www.supermicro.com/support/resources/)
     2. Using IPMI web interface (you will need to see what IP it gets on the screen that hangs OR set it to static in BIOS), I logged in with username ADMIN and password ADMIN
     3. Flashed IPMI to update firmware from R1.11 to R1.39
     4. Downloaded and ran Rufus (https://rufus.akeo.ie/) to create a FreeDOS bootable thumbdrive
     5. Unzipped firmware update files to the drive that we just made bootable
     6. Rebooted, pressed delete to enter BIOS
     7. In BIOS, changed BOOT Tab to Dual to be able to boot from USB drive
     8. Hit F4 to save & reboot
     9. Pressed F11 to select bootable thumbdrive, followed README included with BIOS download to updated BIOS from 1.0b to 2.0c
     10. Stopped hanging on PEI - - IPMI screen

Issue 2: After BIOS firmware update, system would not recognize onboard SSD or boot from it.
  Issue 2 Fix (after calling Supermicro 3 times, on 3rd try I got someone who knew what he was talking about and talked me step-by-step through BIOS changes):
     1. Enter BIOS, go to ADVANCED tab, change NVMe Firmware Source to "AMI Native Support"
     2. Go to BOOT Tab, change Boot Mode Select to UEFI (if your Windows copy is UEFI like mine)
     3. Set Boot Order on this Tab so it sees your disk
     4. Still under BOOT Tab, go to UEFI Hard Disk Drive BBS Priorities, change UEFI Boot Order #1: to "Windows Boot Manager"
     5. Hit F4 to save & reboot

After all of that was said and done, I set system to auto reboot using tool called Rebooter (https://www.passmark.com/products/rebooter.htm) and let it reboot over 100 times (so far), and it did not hang once, booting to Windows every time.