SuperMicro X11 SPH-nCTPF/ nCTF on OmniOS/OI/Solaris

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gea

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These two new single Xeon socket 3647 systems are my intended main future storage/AiO platform as they offer lanes for up to 10 NVMe (2 OcuLink and M.2 onboard), onboard 10G (either 10Gbase-T or SFP+) and LSI 3008 and max 1TB ECC RAM at a price of around 500 Euro without CPU and RAM.

I was able to install the newest OmniOS 151024. Nic (10Gbase-T and SFP+) worked as well as the LSI and the NVMe OcuLink ports with two Optane 900P. But USB give troubles.

With an initial bios setting I was not able to install from USB or with an USB keyboard.
I needed the following Bios setting to make it working

- Advanced Bootfeature: enable Windows 7 USB Keyboard support=yes
- Chipset Southbridge:
Legacy USB support=enable
XHCI=disable

After booting of OmniOS, i got the console messages:
xhci0: failed to map device registers: -1

An additional problem was that caps-lock is inverted.
Caps Lock off=uppercase


On Solaris 11.3 I didn't saw this USB problem but the new Nics (10Gbase-T and SFP+)
are not detected. On Solaris you may need a pci-e nic at the moment.

More
http://www.napp-it.org/doc/downloads/napp-it_build_examples.pdf
 
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gea

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I have tried to setup OmniOS 151025 on these boards and bootup was hanging after the Copyright messages. This may be related to the bugfixes in OmniOS related to the Intel CPU bugs.

A Bios update to v2.0b solved the problem.
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