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Tag: supermicro

Best Quiet Home Server in 2022 for Virtualization
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Best Quiet Home Server in 2022 for Virtualization

Running a home lab is an investment and certainly comes with the cost of equipment, including servers, networking gear, storage, and ancillary devices. However, a cost that is part of…

by Brandon LeeApril 11, 2022April 19, 2024
Add a TPM card to VMware vSAN Host
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Add a TPM card to VMware vSAN Host

Security is an extremely important part of server technology these days. With the sophistication of malicious attacks, supply chain hacks, and other risks to business-critical data, security contains several layers…

by Brandon LeeOctober 18, 2021January 11, 2024
Supermicro VMware Home Lab Automatic Power On and Power Off
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Supermicro VMware Home Lab Automatic Power On and Power Off

Running a VMware vSphere home lab is a great way to learn and grow as a virtualization professional. I have a home lab that I have built up over the…

by Brandon LeeJuly 9, 2020November 22, 2023
Update Supermicro BIOS using IPMI SUM
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Update Supermicro BIOS using IPMI SUM

I really like the Supermicro IPMI interface for remotely performing administrative tasks as well as monitoring the health of the Supermicro server hardware.  One of the really cool things that…

by Brandon LeeOctober 26, 2016January 11, 2021
How to flash Avago LSI RAID controller firmware with boot disk
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How to flash Avago LSI RAID controller firmware with boot disk

In working on provisioning a new Supermicro lab server that is outfitted with an Avago LSI 9380-4i4e SAS RAID controller, one of the first tasks I wanted to complete was…

by Brandon LeeAugust 16, 2016January 11, 2021
Mount Virtual Media SuperMicro IPMI
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Mount Virtual Media SuperMicro IPMI

In the previous post here, I walked through the SuperMicro IPMI management interface and a few of the options that are available to administrators there for management of their SuperMicro…

by Brandon LeeMay 11, 2016January 11, 2021
Supermicro IPMI management walkthrough
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Supermicro IPMI management walkthrough

If you are utilizing Supermicro in your lab environment, there is a great feature that comes with Supermicro boards that allows BMC IPMI management of the server.  It is basically…

by Brandon LeeMay 6, 2016January 11, 2021
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