EU Supermicro 847 36 bay chassis with board, HBAs, NIC, etc - £350

[michathe]

@alex i have a DOS CD ready but i need a PS2 Keybort. I will install newer Hardware so those Boards can wait



does enyone now why they connect the PSU bus to those pinns?
nice redy for x9/x10 Boards

Tomorrow i will swap the front Backplane with the SAS3 expander one and go on with the upgrade from the SC846 Chassis.

 

[_alex]

Ah, you put the CDROM on the SATA where the DOM was?
I have a PS22usb Adapter that is quite valluable, and also some old PS2 Keyboards in Office - always a mess when one is needed but not available.

do you swap the 24x backplane?
i consider to swap the small backplane in the back with a sas2-el1 from 826 i have leftofer amd drive it with a 9261 or 9207 to have at least some sas2 bays for the beginning. Not sure if its necessary to put in a x9-Board or just use what it comes with to expose the disks/be a quroum-node in the cluster.

 

[_alex]

on the pins, no idea. the board manual might give some insight.

 

[Mirabis]

@alex i have a DOS CD ready but i need a PS2 Keybort. I will install newer Hardware so those Boards can wait


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Tomorrow i will swap the front Backplane with the SAS3 expander one and go on with the upgrade from the SC846 Chassis.

For some reason I thought switching the backplane wasn't necessary as it was passive. Figured swapping out the controllers would do xD

Hmm


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[michathe]

Ah, you put the CDROM on the SATA where the DOM was?
I have a PS22usb Adapter that is quite valluable, and also some old PS2 Keyboards in Office - always a mess when one is needed but not available.

do you swap the 24x backplane?
i consider to swap the small backplane in the back with a sas2-el1 from 826 i have leftofer amd drive it with a 9261 or 9207 to have at least some sas2 bays for the beginning. Not sure if its necessary to put in a x9-Board or just use what it comes with to expose the disks/be a quroum-node in the cluster.

Yes i just conectet the DvD Drive direktly to the board. Works fine also testet with Server 2012 R2.

Jep i will Swap the 24x Backplane with the SAS3 version so that i can use the two extra Ports from the expander to connect 8 Drives on the Back. (so i have 32 Drives on my LSI Controlle) The Other 4 Bay will be used for OS disks.

For some reason I thought switching the backplane wasn't necessary as it was passive. Figured swapping out the controllers would do xD

Hmm


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Swapping the Controller is enought but i will use Hardware Raid and i does not want more Raidcontrollers or SAS Expanders. (and i have the Backplanes)

 

[_alex]

for the pins, it looks like they get 12v from fan6,
the other are i2c jumpers. really can't figure out what the purpose is...

 

[_alex]

you should get another 12x backplane with Expander for the back and drive all with your 8i Card
wish i had a 24x backplane with sas3 expander, they are quite rare and still expensive ...

Good to know that a CDROM on the SATA-Port works to boot in another os.

 

[michathe]

oh, the picture looks wrong the cable comes from the PSUs (PSU Bus for Status normaly this goes direkt to the Mobo near to the 24ATX connection) and goes to those jumpers by the PCIe slots. (not from Fan 6)

 

[michathe]

you should get another 12x backplane with Expander for the back and drive all with your 8i Card
wish i had a 24x backplane with sas3 expander, they are quite rare and still expensive ...

Good to know that a CDROM on the SATA-Port works to boot in another os.

Yeah but not for the price for SAS 3 Stuff (32 Drives are enought for now)

I could connect all Drives with one 8 Port Contoller and the 24x Backplane (40 Port Expander) but than i would get 32 Drives over one Link and thats not ideal.

For the 24x look up Ebay from time to time i get them for 225€ (First one by auction for 40€)

 

[_alex]

that is then system Management Bus (near power) to i2c, what could make sense.
Improves pci-Performance (regarding to the manual). but not sure how this exactly works, and as you wrote its the power-smb they connected ....

 

[_alex]

wow, 40 is great Deal!
32 Drives on 4 channel would be a bit too much, yep

 

[michathe]

that is then system Management Bus (near power) to i2c, what could make sense.
Improves pci-Performance (regarding to the manual). but not sure how this exactly works, and as you wrote its the power-smb they connected ....

Yea it is the first time that i see somthing like this "mod" on a Supermicro Box.

And it is hard to understand becouse the header for the PSU bus is not conectet where it should be for monitoring through the IPMI.

 

[michathe]

I bought my Backplanes from this seller: skutcher83 | eBay

Just ask him if he has more.

 

[_alex]

found a crazy sas2 backplane
disk array based on SuperMicro BPN-SAS2-847EL1 4U 21 Bay SAS SATA 6Gb/s 3.5''

 

[michathe]

nice

 

[michathe]

Had some fun today.

Backup Server is done. (Reconfiguring now)

Hardware: E5-2670, Supermicro, X9DRI-F, 16GB RAM, LSI 9266-8i, X540-T2, 32 x 2TB Drives enterprise

in a week or so (180Hrs) the main Storage will get an upgrade. Same Hardware only change is a Adaptec 8885.

 

[Mirabis]

Received mine today, been disassembling for hours already xD.. But booted up fine, etc


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[_alex]

Mine still on the way, regarding the tracking it arrived at and departed from Nürnberg today, need to go down the way to Allgäu now, so hopefully getting it monday.

@michate: Oh, no SAS3-Card, so SFF-8087 -> SFF->8643 ?
Did you daisy-chain from the front-backplane output ports to two ports of the Back-Backplane, with an SFF-8643 -> SFF-8078 Cable again ?

 

[michathe]

@michate: Oh, no SAS3-Card, so SFF-8087 -> SFF->8643 ?
Did you daisy-chain from the front-backplane output ports to two ports of the Back-Backplane, with an SFF-8643 -> SFF-8078 Cable again ?

Thats exactly what i did.

The main Server will get a SAS3 Card.

 

[fvanlint]

So I managed to enable IPMI on this CORAID machine by following these steps:

1. Reboot the box, and hit the Del key to get to the BIOS setup. If the BIOS requests a password, the old Coraid BIOS password is pwzm.
2. Find the IPMI tab using the Right Arrow, and hit Enter to bring it up.
3. Hit Down Arrow, then Enter to get into the BMC network configuration settings.
4. Hit Enter, then Down Arrow, then Enter to change the Update IPMI LAN Config setting to Yes.
5. Hit Down Arrow, then Enter, to select the Configuration Address source setting to either Static or DHCP, then hit Enter.
6. If DHCP was chosen in step [9], ignore this step. If the setting chosen in step [9] was Static, set the Station IP address, Subnet mask, and Gateway IP address settings appropriately.
7. Hit ESC twice, then Right Arrow to get to the Save and Exit tab, then Down Arrow to select Save Changes and Exit, then Enter to make it save and reboot.
8. Connect over http to IPMI

core•aid: setting up IPMI