[OmniOS-discuss] supermicro A1SRM-2558F

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Fri, 25 Mar 2016, Dave Pooser wrote:

> On 8/1/15, 2:45 PM, "OmniOS-discuss on behalf of Bob Friesenhahn"
> <omnios-discuss-bounces at lists.omniti.com on behalf of
> bfriesen at simple.dallas.tx.us> wrote:
>
>> I have a system with one of these motherboards on order but have not
>> yet heard about specific issues with OmniOS except that the 10Gb-E
>> interfaces will not be supported right away, and there was mention of
>> "weirdness with asy port" with early hardware on an Illumos list.
>> Hopefully I will have news within the next two weeks
>
> Any experiences to report? I'm curious about a low-poer box for my own
> nefarious purposes....

Other than the 10Gbit interfaces still not working, and the need to 
downgrade USB to USB 2.0, I have experienced nothing but joy from my 
X10SDV-TLN4F-based system in the past four months after a firmware 
update was applied.  The firmware update was necessary in order for 
the BIOS to discover and boot from M.2 SATA devices.

It is not as fast as systems taking 10X more power but should handle 
most medium-duty Internet services and file server duties without any 
problem at all.

The only real gripe I have found is that the IPMI Ethernet is bridged 
onto one of the LAN Ethernet interfaces (unfortunately the one I chose 
to point to the Internet), which causes a security concern. 
Apparently this is typical for SuperMicro hardware.

I would be happier if the SOC/motherboad supported 8 SATA interfaces 
rather than 6 since the chassis supports 8.  Some Xeon D motherboard 
vendors add a SAS chip for 8 SAS channels.

My system was purchased from SW Technology (https://www.swt.com/) 
which is off Greenville in Plano, Texas.  The system was delivered 
with OmniOS installed and working according to my specification.  The 
configurator page for the system I ordered (which includes an option 
to install OmniOS) is at "https://www.swt.com/xd04.php".

Bob
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