I've had my unit running pfSense for a month or so now.
Their support team were great in helping me get to the bottom of my SFP issue. TLDR: you need an Intel-branded SFP or it just won't work. I used an FS.com one and rebranded it for Intel and as soon as I did that, the link came up!
I know...
I decided to invest in a VP6650.
Delivery was fast and the feature set is impressive for such a small box.
I bought it with the aim of running pfSense so only got a 8GB DDR5 RAM and 250GB M2 drive, all supplied pre-configured by Protectli.
I really like it. The only issue is that the 10Gb SFP+...
Just a bump to this post: has anyone managed to get it working or figure out how to allow 1Gb SFP to work in addition to the 10Gb SFP+ modules?
I ask because I want to use a fibre SFP provided by my ISP that runs at 1Gb and getting a 10Gb version is nigh on impossible / expensive (1Gb...
ok, took me a while to sort this out.
A full reset, clearing of the BIOS didn't help.
In the end, I had to do a full reflash of the BIOS. This was the only solution to this particular problem which I find a little worrying: supplying a certificate that, for some reason, it doesn't like...
Final update:
The reset was successful in that the user account and password was reset to admin / admin. I can se this with the ipmitool - if I have the wrong credentials, I get a Error: Unable to establish IPMI v2 / RMCP+ session message.
However, when I use the correct credentials, I'm still...
Aha.
I've had some success!
I stumbled across this site ipmitool 1.8.11 vib for ESXi
And managed to get it installed.
I ran the command and it just returned a prompt. I assumed it worked because shortly after, the IP side went down (ping dropped) and after a few minutes, came back up. So the BMC...
Ah. OK.
Only issue, I'm running vSphere on it, so no bare metal OS access.
I guess this is serial? If I can have a passthrough serial or something... I'll give it a try.
Yes, but I'm completely flummuxed how this works.
Their website tells you to install ipmitool which is straight foward, then jumps straight to that second command.
No information how you connect to it!
I've tried ipmitool -H <BMC IP address> -U admin and then entering the password, but I just...
I get an error, cannot connect. Not an invalid cert.
I have the password and can login over SSH. Is there a way to reset the BMC over SSH? I've found how to reset the server but not the BMC itself.
Since purchasing an Asrock rack X570D4U-2L2T, it's been fine and the BMC IPMI has been really useful.
Today, I tried installing a certificate so have proper SSL (certificate generated from my own private PKI CA), and I must have done something wrong or it has serious QA issues as I can no longer...
Thanks CreoleLakerFan. I'll see what variants of those boards are available.
I guess the issue is wanting IPMI. Without that, a plethora of consumer desktop boards are available but if you want remote KVM and power options then that really limits the choices to these Asrock Rack and Supermicro...
First post here, I hope someone can offer some advice... :)
I'm looking at building a small home lab virtualisation setup. I use ESXi at work so would like to stick to that for home. I'm not too bothered about official support as long as it works and is stable.
For now, I've been using my...
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