Supermicro X11QPL User Manual page 3

About This Manual
This manual is written for system integrators, IT technicians and knowledgeable end users.
It provides information for the installation and use of the X11QPL motherboard.
About This Motherboard
The X11QPL motherboard supports four Intel Xeon Scalable-SP and 2nd Generation Intel
Xeon Scalable-SP processors (Socket P0) with the TDP (Thermal Design Power) of up to
205W, and three UPI (UltraPath Interconnect) links of up to 10.4 GT/s (Note 1 below). With
the Intel C621 PCH built-in, this motherboard supports up to 7 PCI-E 3.0 slots, 2 SATA 3.0
connections, 8 NVMe, and 2 M.2 connectors. It can support 12 TB (max) DDR4 3DS LRDIMM/
LRDIMM/3DS RDIMM/RDIMM ECC memory of up to 2933* MHz in 48 DIMM slots (*Note 2).
It also supports up to 18 TB memory with DCPMM modules. This motherboard is intended to
be installed and serviced by professional technicians only. For processor/memory updates,
please refer to our website at http://www.supermicro.com/products/.
Notes 1. UPI/memory speeds are dependent on the processors installed in your sys-
tem. 2. Support for 2933MHz memory is dependent on the CPU SKU.
Chapter 1 describes the features, specifications and performance of the motherboard, and
provides detailed information on the Intel C621.
Chapter 2 provides hardware installation instructions. Read this chapter when installing the
processor, memory modules and other hardware components into the system.
Chapter 3 describes troubleshooting procedures for video, memory, and system setup stored
in the CMOS.
Chapter 4 includes an introduction to the BIOS, and provides detailed information on running
the CMOS Setup utility.
Appendix A provides BIOS Error Beep Codes information.
Appendix B lists software program installation instructions.
Appendix C provides standardized warning statements.
Appendix D contains UEFI BIOS Recovery instructions.
Appendix E provides information on how to configure VROC RAID settings.
Appendix F provides information on how to configure secure boot settings.
Appendix G provides information on how to configure iSCSI settings.
Appendix H provides information on how to configure Network Interface Card (NIC) settings.
Preface
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Preface