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Santa Clara County in the State of California, USA. The State of California, County of Santa Clara shall be the exclusive venue for the resolution of any such disputes. Supermicro's total liability for all claims will not exceed the price paid for the hardware product.
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This user's guide is written for system integrators, IT professionals, and knowledgeable end users. It provides information for the installation and use of the AOC-S100GC-i2C add-on card. 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.
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Product safety info: http://www.supermicro.com/about/policies/safety_informa- tion.cfm • If you have any questions, please contact our support team at: support@ supermicro.com This user's guide may be periodically updated without notice. Please check the Supermicro website for possible updates to the user's guide revision level.
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Preface Conventions Used in the User's Guide Pay special attention to the following symbols for proper system installation and to prevent damage to the system or injury to yourself: Warning: Important information given to ensure proper system installation or to prevent damage to the components or injury to yourself. Note: Additional information given to provide information for correct sys- tem setup.
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Introduction Overview Congratulations on purchasing your add-on card from an acknowledged leader in the industry. Supermicro products are designed with the utmost attention to detail to provide you with the highest standards in quality and performance. About this Add-on Card The Supermicro AOC-S100GC-i2C is the most advanced Network-Controller Side- band Interface (NC-SI) Ethernet LAN card on the market today.
Super AOC-S100GC-i2C Add-On Card User's Guide • Network overlay: VXLAN, NVGRE, GENEVE • SR-IOV with up to 256 VFs • PXE Support • NC-SI for IPMI support • Cable support: copper cables, fiber cables, optic cables with optional transceiv- •...
PCI-E 4.0 x 16 ex- ® pansion slot • NC-SI feature is only supported by Supermicro motherboards with correspond- ing NC-SI connectors Note: This product is intended to be used with Supermicro server systems or motherboards as an integrated solution package.
The QSFP28 ports operate at up to 100Gb/s. Plug the Direct Attached Copper (DAC) cable into the QSFP28 ports for network connections. See the layout below for the location. QSFP28 QSFP28 JNCSI1 AOC-S100GC-i2C DESIGNED IN USA REV:1.02 LED1 LED2...
Super AOC-S100GC-i2C Add-On Card User's Guide NC-SI Header & PCI-E 4.0 x16 Connector NC-SI Header A Network-Controller Sideband Interface (NC-SI) header is located at JNCSI1 on the add-on card. Connect an appropriate cable from this header to a motherboard to provide an out-of-band (sideband) connection between the onboard Intel® E810- CAM2 Controller and a Network Interface Controller (NIC) for remote management.
Pin 1 is identified with a square solder pad on the printed Pin 1-2 (Short) circuit board. See the motherboard layout pages for jumper locations. Note: JP1 is for production use only. JNCSI1 AOC-S100GC-i2C DESIGNED IN USA REV:1.02 LED1 LED2...
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Super AOC-S100GC-i2C Add-On Card User's Guide JP4 for NC-SI IPMI FailOver Standby by Function Notes Support Support Support Power Disable jumper Disable = No to disconnect standby Power Default the standby to AOC NIC power WoL is supported but limited to...
Chapter 3: Installation Chapter 3 Installation 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 •...
Super AOC-S100GC-i2C Add-On Card User's Guide Before Installation To install the add-on card properly, be sure to follow the instructions below. 1. Power down the system. 2. Remove the power cord from the wall socket. 3. Use industry-standard anti-static equipment (such as gloves or wrist strap) and follow the instructions listed on page 3-1 to avoid damage caused by ESD.
Installing Drivers (for Intel E810-CAM2) ® To install drivers for the AOC-S100GC-i2C add-on card for either Linux and Win- dows, please follow the instructions below. Building Driver RPM Package Please follow the steps below to build a binary RPM package for this driver.
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Super AOC-S100GC-i2C Add-On Card User's Guide # rpm -Uvh <RPM> # dnf/yum localinstall <RPM> Note 1: To compile the driver on some kernel/arch combinations, you may need to install a package with the development version of libelf (e.g. libelf-dev, libelf-devel, elfutils-libelf-devel).
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Chapter 3: Installation The install location listed above is the default location. This may differ for vari- ous Linux distributions. Note: To compile the driver with ADQ (Application Device Queues) flags set, use the following command, where <nproc> is the number of logical cores: # make -j<nproc>...
Super AOC-S100GC-i2C Add-On Card User's Guide EPCT (Intel Ethernet Port Configuration Tool) ® Please download the latest version of Intel Ethernet Port Configuration Tool (All ® Supported OSs) from the Intel Download Center site (https://downloadcenter.intel. ® com/download/28931/Intel-Ethernet-Port-Configuration-Tool-All-Supported-OSs-). For more information, please see the EPCT readme file from the following site (https://downloadmirror.intel.com/28931/eng/epct.txt).
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Note: It is usually fs0, but can also be fs1,... etc. 5. Navigate to the EPCT\EFI2_x64 directory. 6. Find corresponding AOC-S100GC-i2C (E810-C) to NIC#. In this example, AOC-S100GC-i2C NIC#=1. Run the following command to find AOC-S100GC- i2C NIC#: epct64e.efi -devices branding...
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Super AOC-S100GC-i2C Add-On Card User's Guide 7. To check the currently available active and port options, use the NIC# and run the following command: epct64e.efi -nic=1 -get Under the Active Option listing, the "X" will indicate the option currently selected.
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(Disclaimer Continued) The products sold by Supermicro are not intended for and will not be used in life support systems, medical equipment, nuclear facilities or systems, aircraft, aircraft devices, aircraft/emergency com- munication devices or other critical systems whose failure to perform be reasonably expected to result in significant injury or loss of life or catastrophic property damage.