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No, unfortunately I didn't. I tried on a few different servers (DL380p, DL560, DL580) and couldn't get it to work. I think from memory I got some SFPs to work, but not the ones I wanted to use. I spent a good number of hours trying different things, and in the end I gave up and got some regular...

I found this site which lists which SFPs are compatible with ConnectX-4 cards. I can confirm that Cisco QSFP-40G-SR-BD work in my CX455 cards and link up at 40G...

I wonder if it might be easier to modify the firmware to remove the vendor lock. I know that it's easy to reflash them, but I don't know whether or not they have some sort of checksum validation.

Thanks. I've reflashed it again and triple checked all the settings. It all matches yours exactly but still isn't working. I have two cards (which were bought from different suppliers) and they're both doing the same thing so I don't think it's faulty hardware. I did some more testing with...

Has anyone got any experience with getting an HP 544+FLR-QSFP (part number 764285-B21) to work? I've successfully flashed regular ConnectX-3 cards with MCX354A-FCBT firmware and got them working, but this HP card is an MCX354A-FCCT (a ConnectX-3 Pro). It's not possible to flash it with non-Pro...

Thanks, unfortunately I already have a box of these Cisco SFPs though so they're the only ones I would be using. If I need to buy new SFPs then this isn't the right switch for me. Does anyone happen to have a Cisco SR BiDi SFP and can try the above commands?

I saw earlier in the thread that someone was unable to get BiDi SFPs working in a SX6012. I may have missed something in this 63 page thread, but was a solution ever found? I want to use Cisco QSFP-40G-SR-BD SFPs to have 40Gb links to servers. Is this possible with a SX60xx?

The suspense was killing me so I decided to buy a Gen9 SPI board and some v4 Xeons to try it out for myself. A Gen8 chassis with a Gen9 SPI board running BIOS U17 v2.72 works out of the box with E7-8867v4 and DDR3 RAM. I didn't need to do anything at all other than install the parts and connect...

Nice! I'm tempted to buy a Gen9 SPI board and some v4 Xeons and install them into my Gen8. Seems like it's still not clear what works and what doesn't work though... Some people said that for them it had compatibility issues. Wonder if it's the specific model of CPU that does it.

Is this by cross flashing a G8 SPI board with G9 bios, or is it working with DDR3 out of the box without needing to do anything?

Great that you were able to prove that the hardware fully supports it, it's just a limitation of the BIOS. Wonder if there would be a way to merge the Gen8 and Gen9 BIOS to give Gen9 CPU support, but still work correctly with the rest of the Gen8 platform e.g. fans. Being able to use v4 CPUs...

Hmm... I must have been confused somehow. I think I might have been thinking of the DL380e/DL360e (E as opposed to P) where the motherboards are a lot more similar. I guess that answers my question then in that the motherboards are very different.

I know what the difference between the servers are, I'm asking about the motherboards specifically.

Can anyone tell me what, if any, difference there is between a DL360p Gen8 and DL380p Gen8 motherboard? They look identical however the fact that they report themselves as being either DL360p or DL380p to the software suggests there is a difference. The BIOS update that you can download from HP...

Fair enough, I know the feeling. I'm fairly confident that I can remove and solder a new NAND chip, but like what you said in your first post I don't really want to spend the time and effort when I don't know if it will actually work or not. Given that I have a suspicion that my current NAND...

Did you make any progress with this? I've got a DL380p Gen8 which I believe has a working but corrupt NAND. It was working fine until I went to update Intelligent Provisioning but had a power loss part way through the process. Ever since then iLO reports: Embedded Flash/SD-CARD Controller...

My DL380e Gen8 has the rear HDD cage installed which means it's not able to fit the second PCIe riser board. On the motherboard it has a 16x and an 8x slot which the riser board plugs into. I've done some measurements and despite the fact I can't fit the riser board in the case, I can still...