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User's Guide Revision 1.0
Release Date: September 10, 2021
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Summary of Contents for AOC-S25GC-i4S

Page 1: ...User s Guide Revision 1 0 AOC S25GC i4S ...

Page 2: ...UCH DAMAGES IN PARTICULAR SUPER MICRO COMPUTER INC SHALL NOT HAVE LIABILITY FOR ANY HARDWARE SOFTWARE OR DATA STORED OR USED WITH THE PRODUCT INCLUDING THE COSTS OF REPAIRING REPLACING INTEGRATING INSTALLING OR RECOVERING SUCH HARDWARE SOFTWARE OR DATA Any disputes arising between the manufacturer and the customer shall be governed by the laws of Santa Clara County in the State of California USA T...

Page 3: ...s machine learning and big data analytics An Important Note to the User All graphic images and layout drawings shown in this user s guide are based upon the latest PCB revision available at the time of publishing of this user s guide The add on card you have received may or may not look exactly the same as the graph ics shown in this user s guide Returning Merchandise for Service A receipt or copy...

Page 4: ...possible damage done to the components or injury to yourself Note Additional information given for proper system setup Important Links For your system to work properly please follow the links below to download all necessary drivers utilities and the user s manual for your server Supermicro product manuals http www supermicro com support manuals Product drivers and utilities ftp ftp supermicro com ...

Page 5: ...cro Computer B V Het Sterrenbeeld 28 5215 ML s Hertogenbosch The Netherlands Tel 31 0 73 6400390 Fax 31 0 73 6416525 Email sales supermicro nl General Information support supermicro nl Technical Support rma supermicro nl Customer Support Web Site www supermicro nl Asia Pacific Address Super Micro Computer Inc 3F No 150 Jian 1st Rd Zhonghe Dist New Taipei City 235 Taiwan R O C Tel 886 2 8226 3990 F...

Page 6: ...1 Add On Card Image and Layout 2 1 2 2 Major Components 2 2 2 3 QSFP28 Ethernet Connections 2 3 2 4 NC SI Header 2 5 2 5 Jumper Settings 2 6 Chapter 3 Installation 3 1 Static Sensitive Devices 3 1 3 2 Before Installation 3 2 3 3 Installing the Add on Card 3 2 3 4 Installing Drivers for Intel E810 CAM1 3 3 Super AOC S25GC i4S Add On Card User s Guide vi ...

Page 7: ...atures of this add on card include the following Quad Port SFP28 Connector Low profile short length standard form factor PCI E 4 0 x16 backward compatible to PCI E 3 0 x16 Intel E810 CAM1 Ethernet Controller Asset Management Feature with thermal sensor Intel Ethernet Flow Director Application Device Queues ADQ Data Plan Development Kit Low Latency RDMA over Converged Ethernet iWARP and RoCE v2 VxL...

Page 8: ...onnectors Application Device Queues ADQ Dynamic Device Personalization DDP Host Interface PCI E v4 0 Backward compatible with PCIe v3 0 Message Signal Interrupt MSI X Networking Features Jumbo Packet 9K Max Teaming Virtual LANs 802 1q VLAN tagging Stateless Offload Features TCP UDP IPv4 IPv6 checksum offload Large Send Offload LSO Receive Segment Coalescing RSC TCP Segmentation Offload TSO ...

Page 9: ...zation Features VXLAN NVGRE Geneve SR IOV 768 Virtual Station Interface VSI 8 Physical Functions PF Microsoft VM Queue VMWare NetQueue DPDK Support QoS Priority based Flow Control 802 1Qbb Enahanced Transmission Selection 802 1Qaz RDMA over Converged Ethernet iWARP and RoCE iWARP RoCEv2 Data Center Bridging ...

Page 10: ...E Boot UEFI PXE Boot Data Center Bridging Enhanced transmission IEEE 802 1Qaz Priority based flow control IEEE 802 1Qbbb Edge Virtual Bridging IEEE 802 Qbg Power Saving ACPI compliant power management Pass through Energy Efficient Ethernet IEEE802 3az 2010 Operating Conditions Operating temperature 0 C to 55 C 32 F to 131 F Storage temperature 40 C to 70 C 40 F to 158 F Storage humidity 90 non con...

Page 11: ...1 JP4 REV 1 00 AOC S25GC i4S DESIGNED IN USA SFP1 SFP2 SFP3 SFP4 D7 D6 D9 D8 D11 D10 D13 D12 E810 CAM1 Chapter 2 Hardware Components 2 1 Add On Card Image and Layout AOC S25GC i4S View AOC S25GC i4S Layout 3 1 2 4 5 6 7 8 9 11 10 14 15 12 13 ...

Page 12: ...on 1 Intel E810 CAM1 Ethernet 25GbE Controller 2 JNC SI1 NC SI header 3 JP4 1 2 Standby Mode Disable default 2 3 Standby Mode Enable 4 SFP1 QSFP28 Port 1 5 SFP2 QSFP28 Port 2 6 SFP3 QSFP28 Port 3 7 SFP4 QSFP28 Port 4 8 D6 QSFP28 LAN4 LED 9 D7 QSFP28 LAN4 LED 10 D8 QSFP28 LAN3 LED 11 D9 QSFP28 LAN3 LED 12 D10 QSFP28 LAN2 LED 13 D11 QSFP28 LAN2 LED 14 D12 QSFP28 LAN1 LED 15 D13 QSFP28 LAN1 LED ...

Page 13: ... Ethernet Connections QSFP28 LAN1 LAN2 LAN3 LAN4 Connectors Four small form factor pluggable QSFP28 optical transceiver connectors SFP1 SFP2 SFP3 SFP4 are located on the add on card These QSFP28 ports provide Ethernet 25GbE 10GbE network connections See the layout below for the loca tions 1 QSFP28 LAN1 2 QSFP28 LAN2 3 QSFP28 LAN3 4 QSFP28 LAN4 3 1 2 4 ...

Page 14: ...he QSFP28 LAN1 connector while D10 and D11 are for the QSFP28 LAN2 connector D8 and D9 are used for the QSFP28 LAN3 connector and D6 and D7 are for the QSFP28 LAN4 connector See the tables below for the LED states LAN Port Activity LED Indicators D6 to D13 Assignment State LED LAN Port Assigned D6 QSFP28 LAN4 D7 QSFP28 LAN4 D8 QSFP28 LAN3 D9 QSFP28 LAN3 D10 QSFP28 LAN2 D11 QSFP28 LAN2 D12 QSFP28 L...

Page 15: ...nagement Controller BMC and a Network Interface Controller NIC for remote management For the network sideband interface to work properly you will need to use a motherboard that supports NC SI and also need to have a special cable Please contact Supermicro at www supermicro com to purchase the cable for this header See the layout below for the location of the JNC SI1 header 1 NC SI header 1 JNCSI1 ...

Page 16: ...e the function of the connector Pin 1 is identified with a square solder pad on the printed circuit board See the motherboard layout pages for jumper locations Note On two pin jumpers Closed means the jumper is on and Open means the jumper is off the pins Connector Pins Jumper Cap Setting Pin 1 2 Short 3 2 1 3 2 1 1 JNCSI1 JP4 REV 1 00 AOC S25GC i4S DESIGNED IN USA SFP1 SFP2 SFP3 SFP4 D7 D6 D9 D8 ...

Page 17: ...C Yes Yes Yes Enable jumper to connect standby power to AOC NIC Wake on LAN WoL is supported but limited to platforms with sufficient air flow when it is in standby mode S5 state Please consult Supermicro before enabling it 3 3V Standby Power Enable The 3 3V Standby Power Enable jumper is located at JP4 on the add on card Close Pins 1 and 2 to enable 3 3V Standby Power support Please consult Super...

Page 18: ...nts 3 1 Static Sensitive Devices Electrostatic Discharge ESD can damage electronic com ponents To avoid dam aging your add on card it is important to handle it very carefully The following measures are generally sufficient to protect your equipment from ESD Precautions Use a grounded wrist strap designed to prevent static discharge Touch a grounded metal object before removing the add on card from...

Page 19: ...nd hotfixes 3 3 Installing the Add on Card Follow the steps below to install the add on card into your system 1 Remove the server cover and if necessary set aside any screws for later use 2 Remove the add on card slot cover If the case requires a screw place the screw aside for later use 3 Position the add on card in the slot directly over the connector on the mother board and gently push down on ...

Page 20: ...n Red Hat distributions 1 Run the following command where x x x is the version number for the driver tar file rpmbuild tb ice x x x tar gz Note For the build to work properly the kernel currently running MUST match the version and configuration of the installed kernel sources If you have just recompiled the kernel reboot the system before building 2 After building the RPM the last few lines of the...

Page 21: ...headers at a minimum The RPM kernel devel will usually fill in the link at lib modules uname r build Manually Building Driver Please follow the steps below to manually build the driver 1 Move the base driver tar file to the directory of your choice For example use home username ice or usr local src ice 2 Untar unzip the archive where x x x is the version number for the driver tar file tar zxf ice ...

Page 22: ...following commands modinfo ice modprobe ice Alternately make sure that any older ice drivers are removed from the kernel before loading the new module rmmod ice modprobe ice Note To enable verbose debug messages in the kernel log use the dynamic debug feature dyndbg See Dynamic Debug later in this README for more information 6 Assign an IP address to the interface by entering the following where e...

Page 23: ... expected to result in significant injury or loss of life or catastrophic property damage Accordingly Supermicro disclaims any and all liability and should buyer use or sell such products for use in such ultra hazardous ap plications it does so entirely at its own risk Furthermore buyer agrees to fully indemnify defend and hold Supermicro harmless for and against any and all claims demands actions...

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