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MBI-6128R-T2

MBI-6128R-T2X

MicroBlade Module

User’s Manual

Revison 1.0d

Summary of Contents for MBI-6128R-T2

Page 1: ...MBI 6128R T2 MBI 6128R T2X MicroBlade Module User s Manual Revison 1 0d...

Page 2: ...the equipment is operated in a commercial environment This equipment generates uses and can radiate radio frequency energy and if not installed and used in accordance with the manufacturer s instruct...

Page 3: ...nd Installation Refer to this chapter for details on installing the MBI 6128R T2 T2X MicroBlade module into the MicroBlade chassis Other sections cover the installation and placement of memory modules...

Page 4: ...Installation 2 6 Restricted Area 2 7 Battery Handling 2 9 Redundant Power Supplies 2 10 Backplane Voltage 2 11 Comply with Local and National Electrical Codes 2 12 Product Disposal 2 13 Hot Swap Fan...

Page 5: ...ection 3 12 Chapter 4 MicroBlade Module Features 4 1 4 1 Control Panel 4 2 Power Button 4 3 LED Indicators 4 3 4 2 Motherboard 4 4 Jumpers 4 5 CMOS Clear 4 5 4 3 Blade Unit Components 4 6 Memory Suppo...

Page 6: ...vii Appendix A AMI UEFI BIOS POST Codes A 1 A 1 Checkpoint Ranges A 1 A 2 Standard Checkpoints A 2 A 3 OEM Reserved Checkpoint Ranges A 9...

Page 7: ...de module and blade enclosure is the chassis that the MicroBlades power supplies and MicroBlade modules are housed within Please refer to our web site for information on operating systems that have be...

Page 8: ...port up to 256 GB VLP RDIMM of DDR4 2400 2133 MHz speed 32 GB 16 GB 8 GB and 4 GB size VLP DIMM memory Memory is interleaved which requires both modules to be of the same size and speed Please refer t...

Page 9: ...is a 6U form factor so a standard 42U rack may accommodate up to seven enclosures with 196 blade modules the equivalent of 784 1U servers With the inclusion of up to fourteen CMM modules and up to twe...

Page 10: ...Europe Address Super Micro 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 super...

Page 11: ...ssistance Only certified technicians should attempt to install or configure components Read this appendix in its entirety before installing or configuring components in the Supermicro chassis These wa...

Page 12: ...quipo considere los riesgos de la corriente el ctrica y familiar cese con los procedimientos est ndar de prevenci n de accidentes Al final de cada advertencia encontrar el n mero que le ayudar a encon...

Page 13: ...t u op de hoogte te zijn van de standaard procedures om ongelukken te voorkomen Gebruik de nummers aan het eind van elke waarschuwing om deze te herleiden naar de desbetreffende locatie BEWAAR DEZE IN...

Page 14: ...250 V 20 A 250V 20A 250V 20A Warnung Dieses Produkt ist darauf angewiesen dass im Geb ude ein Kurzschluss bzw berstromschutz installiert ist Stellen Sie sicher dass der Nennwert der Schutzvorrichtung...

Page 15: ...ing Warning The system must be disconnected from all sources of power and the power cord removed from the power supply module s before accessing the chassis interior to install or remove system compon...

Page 16: ...tes les sources de puissance ainsi que de son cordon d alimentation secteur avant d acc der l int rieur du chassis pour installer ou enlever des composants de syst me Waarschuwing Voordat u toegang ne...

Page 17: ...nd de confier l installation le remplacement et la maintenance de ces quipements des personnels qualifi s et exp riment s Waarschuwing Deze apparatuur mag alleen worden ge nstalleerd vervangen of hers...

Page 18: ...cceso a una de estas reas mediante la utilizaci n de una herramienta especial cerradura con llave u otro medio de seguridad Attention Cet appareil doit tre install e dans des zones d acc s r serv s L...

Page 19: ...ichen oder vom Hersteller empfohlenen Batterietyp Entsorgen Sie die benutzten Batterien nach den Anweisungen des Herstellers Attention Danger d explosion si la pile n est pas remplac e correctement Ne...

Page 20: ...ly connection All connections must be removed to de energize the unit Warnung Dieses Ger t kann mehr als eine Stromzufuhr haben Um sicherzustellen dass der Einheit kein trom zugef hrt wird m ssen alle...

Page 21: ...ckplane when the system is operating Use caution when servicing Warnung Wenn das System in Betrieb ist treten auf der R ckwandplatine gef hrliche Spannungen oder Energien auf Vorsicht bei der Wartung...

Page 22: ...oud Comply with Local and National Electrical Codes Warning Installation of the equipment must comply with local and national electrical codes Warnung Die Installation der Ger te muss den Sicherheitss...

Page 23: ...2 13 Chapter 2 Standardized Warning Statements...

Page 24: ...dled according to all national laws and regulations Warnung Die Entsorgung dieses Produkts sollte gem allen Bestimmungen und Gesetzen des Landes erfolgen Advertencia Al deshacerse por completo de este...

Page 25: ...Keep fingers screwdrivers and other objects away from the openings in the fan assembly s housing Warnung Die L fter drehen sich u U noch wenn die L fterbaugruppe aus dem Chassis genommen wird Halten S...

Page 26: ...chassis Houd uw vingers schroevendraaiers en eventuele andere voorwerpen uit de buurt van de openingen in de ventilatorbehuizing Power Cable and AC Adapter Warning When installing the product use the...

Page 27: ...s y adaptadores de CA La utilizaci n de otros cables y adaptadores podr a ocasionar un mal funcionamiento o un incendio Aparatos El ctricos y la Ley de Seguridad del Material proh be el uso de UL o CS...

Page 28: ...MBI 6128R T2 T2X MicroBlade Module User s Manual 2 18 UL CSA Supermicro UL CSA...

Page 29: ...de meegeleverde of aangewezen kabels stroomkabels en adapters Het gebruik van andere kabels en adapters kan leiden tot een storing of een brand Elektrisch apparaat en veiligheidsinformatiebladen wet...

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Page 31: ...d off independently from the rest of the MicroBlade modules installed in the same enclosure A MicroBlade module unit may be powered up in two ways Press the power button on the MicroBlade module unit...

Page 32: ...ote MicroBlade modules can be hot plugged from the enclosure Installing a Blade Unit into the Enclosure Use the procedure below to install a blade unit into an enclosure Installing a MicroBlade Module...

Page 33: ...removed from the MicroBlade module If this battery dies it must be replaced with an equivalent CR2032 Lithium 3V battery Dispose of used batteries according to the manufacturer s instructions See Figu...

Page 34: ...hassis before you install the CPU heatsink When receiving a motherboard without a processor pre installed make sure that the plastic CPU socket cap is in place and none of the socket pins are bent oth...

Page 35: ...ever to open the load plate Lift the load plate to open it completely 4 Using your thumb and the index finger remove the WARNING plastic cap from the socket OPEN1st OPEN1st WARNING WARNING OPEN1st OPE...

Page 36: ...y are aligned carefully lower the CPU straight down into the socket Do not drop the CPU on the socket Do not move the CPU horizontally or vertically Do not rub the CPU against the surface or against a...

Page 37: ...CPU Heatsink 1 Do not apply any thermal grease to the heatsink or the CPU die the required amount has already been applied 2 Place the heatsink on top of the CPU so that the four mounting holes are al...

Page 38: ...with the air tunnel facing to the right when looking from the front of the system in order to increase the airflow for CPU2 heat sink SNK P0047PS Removing the Heatsink Caution We do not recommend tha...

Page 39: ...eaved and non interleaved memory are supported so you may populate any number of DIMM slots Populating two slots at a time DIMM1A DIMM2A DIMM3A DIMM4A etc with memory modules of the same size and of t...

Page 40: ...ution Exercise extreme care when installing or removing DIMM modules to prevent any possible damage Installing DIMM Memory Modules 1 Power down the blade module see Powering Down a MicroBlade Module U...

Page 41: ...s OS and blades with Linux OS can both occupy and operate within the same blade enclosure Refer to the SuperMicro web site for a complete list of supported operating systems There are several methods...

Page 42: ...non partitioned unformatted hard drives installed and no bootable devices attached to it Once these conditions are met make sure the PXE server is running Then turn on the blade on which you wish to b...

Page 43: ...unit and Table 4 1 for its features Table 4 1 MBI 6128R T2 T2X Blade Unit Features Feature Description Processors Supports two Intel Xeon E5 2600 V3 V4 processors embedded in LGA2011 sockets on the mo...

Page 44: ...until the last node out of the four is ready Red Power Failure 3 KVM UID LED Blue Steady On Indicates that KVM has been initialized on this blade module Flashing Serves as a UID indicator the UID func...

Page 45: ...ibed below in Table 4 3 Table 4 3 Blade Module LED Indicators LED State Description Power LED Green Power On Amber Standby Red Power Failurea a In the event of a power failure the N 1 Redundant Power...

Page 46: ...for a block diagram of this chipset Figure 4 3 for a view of the B1DRi motherboard and Figure 4 5 for an exploded view diagram of the MicroBlade module unit Figure 4 3 B1DRi Motherboard Table 4 4 B1D...

Page 47: ...r it on SPI RGRMII FRONT PANEL SYSTEM POWER CTRL FAN SPEED PCI E X1 G2 USB 2 0 PCH 6 0 Gb S USB 2 0 LPC USB on header 1 0 SATA BIOS SPI SPI Temp Sensor SPI AST2400 BMC COM1 on Header VGA on header BMC...

Page 48: ...speed 32 GB 16 GB 8 GB and 4 GB size memory in eight 8 288 pin RDIMM sockets See Section 3 4 Processor and Heatsink Installation on page 3 4 for further details on motherboard memory installation Tab...

Page 49: ...servers For information on recommended HDDs visit the Supermicro Web site at http www supermicro com products nfo storage cfm Blade Power Consumption Page Using the Web based Management Utility from...

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Page 51: ...ry little electrical power When the blade unit is turned off a backup battery provides power to the BIOS flash chip enabling it to retain system parameters Each time the blade is powered on it is conf...

Page 52: ...ile to a bootable USB pen drive 2 Connect your bootable USB pen drive to one of the two USB slots on the CMM located on the back side of the enclosure 3 Boot to the USB pen drive and go to the directo...

Page 53: ...een All displayed text is described in this section although the screen display is often all you need to understand how to set the options When you first power on the computer the BIOS is immediately...

Page 54: ...ed press the ENTER key to access the sub menu Menu options found in the MAIN BIOS SETUP menu are described in Table 5 1 Figure 5 1 BIOS Setup Screen Table 5 1 Main BIOS Setup Menu Options Menu Option...

Page 55: ...hipset Configuration See Table 5 5 for a description of BIOS setup menu options in this sub menu SATA Configuration See Table 5 6 for a description of BIOS setup menu options in this sub menu sSAT A C...

Page 56: ...to set Re try Boot options to either Disabled Legacy Boot or EFI Boot Watch Dog Function If enabled the Watch Dog Timer will allow the system to reboot when it is inactive for more than 5 minutes The...

Page 57: ...ormance Adjacent Cache Prefetch This setting lets you Enable or Disable the use of the Adjacent Prefetch to prefetch streams of data and instructions from the main memory to the L1 cache in order to i...

Page 58: ...CI Express Ports Link Speed Link Speed is specified as either Auto Gen 1 2 5 GT s or Gen 2 5 GT s PCI E Port DeEmphasis This setting specifies De Emphasis control LNKCON2 6 for this PCIe port Options...

Page 59: ...interrupt remapping support QPI Configuration Use this sub menu to set QPI configuration features and optons QPI General Configuration Use this sub menu to display and provide options to change the Q...

Page 60: ...setting to Enable or Disable Device Tagging South Bridge Configuration This sub menu static displays PCH Information chipset Name Stepping and USB Devices and allows you to configure other South Bridg...

Page 61: ...and only the drives that have this option enabled will spin up at boot Otherwise all drives spin up at boot if this setting is disabled SATA Device Type This setting allows you to identify that the S...

Page 62: ...Event The options are Enabled and Disabled PCI PERR SERR Support This setting Enables or Disables the runtime event for SERR PERR errors Above 4G Decoding Available if the system supports 64 bit PCI...

Page 63: ...for your system Serial Port 1 2 Configuration This sub menu allows the user the configure settings of Serial Port 1 or Serial Port 2 Serial Port Select Enabled to enable the a selected onboard serial...

Page 64: ...th regular data bits to detect data transmission errors Select Even if the parity bit is set to 0 and the number of 1 s in data bits is even Select Odd if the parity bit is set to 0 and the number of...

Page 65: ...ment Port The feature selects a serial port used by the Microsoft Windows Emergency Management Services EMS to communicate with a remote server The options are COM1 Console Redirection and COM2 SOL Co...

Page 66: ...allows you to Enable or Disable PCI AER Support Table 5 13 Trusted Computer Sub menu Menu Option Description Security Device Support This setting Enables or Disables BIOS support for a security devic...

Page 67: ...the event log will be erased upon next system reboot Select Yes Every Reset data in the event log will be erased upon every system reboot The options are No Yes Next reset and Yes Every reset When Log...

Page 68: ...d changed in this screen to the IPMI on the next boot Options include No or Yes Configuration Address Source This feature allows the user to select the source of the IP address for this computer If St...

Page 69: ...d be from 3 characters to 20 characters long Table 5 18 Boot Setup Menu Options Menu Option Description Boot Priority Option 1 15 This feature allows you to specify the sequence of priority for the bo...

Page 70: ...tem will reboot and implement the changes you have made to the BIOS Setup Save Changes Highlight this item and hit ENTER to save changes done so far to any of the setup options Discard Changes Highlig...

Page 71: ...ndicate the task the system is currently executing Checkpoints are very useful in aiding software developers or technicians in debugging problems that occur during the pre boot process A 1 Checkpoint...

Page 72: ...on after microcode loading 0x0A OEM initialization after microcode loading 0x0B Cache initialization 0x0C 0x0D Reserved for future AMI SEC error codes 0x0E Microcode not found 0x0F Microcode not loade...

Page 73: ...itialization 0x35 CPU post memory initialization Boot Strap Processor BSP selection 0x36 CPU post memory initialization System Management Mode SMM initialization 0x37 Post Memory North Bridge initiali...

Page 74: ...IPL 0xE1 S3 Boot Script execution 0xE2 Video repost 0xE3 OS S3 wake vector call 0xE4 0xE7 Reserved for future AMI progress codes S3 Resume Error Codes 0xE8 S3 Resume Failed 0xE9 S3 Resume PPI not Foun...

Page 75: ...e Services 0x63 CPU DXE initialization is started 0x64 CPU DXE initialization CPU module specific 0x65 CPU DXE initialization CPU module specific 0x66 CPU DXE initialization CPU module specific 0x67 C...

Page 76: ...tion 0x79 CSM initialization 0x7A 0x7F Reserved for future AMI DXE codes 0x80 0x8F OEM DXE initialization codes 0x90 Boot Device Selection BDS phase is started 0x91 Driver connecting is started 0x92 P...

Page 77: ...System Reset 0xB4 USB hot plug 0xB5 PCI bus hot plug 0xB6 Clean up of NVRAM 0xB7 Configuration Reset reset of NVRAM settings 0xB8 0xBF Reserved for future AMI codes 0xC0 0xCF OEM BDS initialization c...

Page 78: ...nnot be met Table A 7 ACPI ASL Checkpoints Status Codes Description 0x01 System is entering S1 sleep state 0x02 System is entering S2 sleep state 0x03 System is entering S3 sleep state 0x04 System is...

Page 79: ...anges Status Codes Description 0x05 OEM SEC initialization before microcode loading 0x0A OEM SEC initialization after microcode loading 0x1D 0x2A OEM pre memory initialization codes 0x3F 0x4E OEM PEI...

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