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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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Preface Preface About This Manual This user's guide is written for system integrators, PC technicians, and knowledgeable PC users. It provides information for the installation and use of the AOC-MH25G-b2S2G and AOC-MH25G-b2S2GM add-on cards. About This Add-On Card The Supermicro AOC-MH25G-b2S2G and AOC-MH25G-b2S2GM, which is supported by ®...
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• Product safety info: http://www.supermicro.com/about/policies/safety_information.cfm • If you have any questions, please contact our support team at: support@supermicro.com This manual may be periodically updated without notice. Please check the Supermicro website for possible updates to the manual revision level.
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 of quality and performance. For product support and updates, please refer to our website at http://www.supermicro.com/products/nfo/networking.cfm#adapter.
Super AOC-MH25G-b2S2G/-b2S2GM User's Manual 1.3 Specifications General • Super I/O Module (SIOM) Form Factor • Broadcom BCM57414 25GbE controller – dual SFP28 connectors with speed up to ® 25Gbps per port • Intel i350-AM2 1GbE GbE controller – dual RJ45 connectors with speed up to 1Gbps ®...
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Chapter 1: Introduction Note: Please note that this product is sold only as part of an integrated solution with Supermicro server systems. 25GbE SFP28 Specifications Networking Features • Jumbo frames • 802.3x flow control • Link Aggregation (802.3ad) • Virtual LANs- 802.1q VLAN tagging •...
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Super AOC-MH25G-b2S2G/-b2S2GM User's Manual • Per partition statistics support • Stateless offloads configuration per partition • VEB/VEPA support Virtualization Features • NetQueue, VMQueue, and Multiqueue • Support for 128 Virtual functions • VXLAN, NVGRE, and Geneve • Edge Virtual Bridging (EVB) Flow Processing •...
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Chapter 1: Introduction Power Savings • ACPI compliant power management • PCI Express Active State Power Management (ASPM) • Ultra low-power mode • Pass-through Energy Efficient Ethernet (IEEE802.3az-2010) GbE Specifications Ethernet Features • IEEE 802.3 auto-negotiation for speed, duplex, and flow control •...
Super AOC-MH25G-b2S2G/-b2S2GM User's Manual 2.2 Major Components The following major components are installed on AOC-MH25G-b2S2G and AOC-MH25G- b2S2GM: AOC-MH25G-b2S2G/-b2S2GM Major Components Component Name Definition Broadcom BCM57414 SFP28 LAN controller ® Controller Intel i350-AM Controller RJ45 LAN controller ® PCI-E Gen2 x4/Gen3 x8...
Green 25Gbps Green SFP28 LAN Port Active 1. SFP28 Port 1 2. SFP28 Port 2 JLAN2 DESIGNED IN USA JLAN1 3. LAN3 Link/Activity SFP1 SFP2 Intel i350-AM LED Indicators 4. LAN4 Link/Activity LED3 LED Indicators Broadcom BCM 57414 AOC-MH25G-b2S2G REV:1.00...
2.4 RJ45 LAN Ports and LAN LED Indicators RJ45 LAN Ports (LAN1/LAN2) There are two RJ45 LAN ports (LAN1/LAN2) on the AOC-MH25G-b2S2G. These LAN ports support connection speeds of 1Gbps. Use a direct-attach RJ45 type LAN cable. See the layout below for the location.
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Chapter 2: Hardware Components 1. RJ45 LAN Port 1 2. RJ45 LAN Port 2 JLAN2 DESIGNED IN USA JLAN1 SFP2 SFP1 Intel i350-AM LED3 Broadcom BCM 57414 AOC-MH25G-b2S2G REV:1.00...
Super AOC-MH25G-b2S2G/-b2S2GM User's Manual 2.5 DIP Switch The DIP switch at S1 provides SMBUS address selection. You can configure the card with a static SMBUS address. Refer to the tables below for address selections. See the layout below for the location.
Chapter 3: Installation Chapter 3 Installation 3.1 Static-Sensitive Devices Electrostatic Discharge (ESD) can damage electronic com ponents. To avoid damaging 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-MH25G-b2S2G/-b2S2GM User's Manual 3.2 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.
Chapter 3: Installation 3.3 Installing the Add-on Card Follow the steps below to install an add-on card into your system. (If the system is fixed onto a rack, the removal of the server top cover is not required. If the system is not anchored to a fixed structure, it is recommended to remove the system top cover for ease of installation).
1. Install the SIOM card into the motherboard. 2. Tighten the screw. 3. Install the bracket onto the chassis 4. Install the motherboard in the chassis Note: Supermicro recommends that this SIOM card be installed by a system integrator or by the manufacturer.
Chapter 3: Installation 3.5 Installing the Add-on Card with Swappable Bracket Follow the steps below to install the add-on card into your system that supports a swappable bracket. The add-on card must be installed in the swappable bracket before it can be installed in the system.
1. Run CDR-NIC. (If you do not have a product CD-ROM, download drivers from the Supermicro Support Website and then transfer them to your system.) 2. When the SUPERMICRO window appears, click on the computer icon next to the product model.
Chapter 3: Installation 3.7 Installing Drivers (for Intel i350-AM2) ® Download the drivers from Intel Download Center or the Supermicro site at https://www. supermicro.com/wftp/Networking_Drivers. Build a Binary RPM Package Use the following procedures to install drivers on the Linux operating system. Download the drivers from ftp://ftp.supermicro/Networking_Drivers/.
Super AOC-MH25G-b2S2G/-b2S2GM User's Manual The install locations listed above are the default locations. They may not be correct for certain Linux distributions. For more information, see the ldistrib.txt file included in the driver tar. Note: IXGBE_NO_LRO is a compile time flag. The user can enable it at compile time to remove support for LRO from the driver.
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Chapter 3: Installation Note: You must have kernel sources installed in the right order to compile the driver module. 1. Move the base driver tar file to the directory of your choice. For example, use /home/ username/ixgb or /usr/local/src/ixgb. 2. Untar/unzip the archive: tar xfz ixgb-x.x.x directory 3.
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Super AOC-MH25G-b2S2G/-b2S2GM User's Manual compile the driver into the kernel (see item 8). Edit /etc/rc.conf, and create the appropriate ifconfig_ixgb<interface_num> entry: ifconfig_ixgb<interface_num>="<ifconfig_settings>" Example usage: ifconfig_ixgb0="inet 192.168.10.1 netmask 255.255.255.0" 8. If you want to compile the driver into the kernel, enter: cd ixgb-x.x.x/src...
–y install libibverbs* infiniband-diags perftest qperf li- brdmacm-utils yum –y install groupinstall “InfiniBand Support” 2. From the CDR-NIC LAN driver CD or the Supermicro site, go to the following directory: Broadcom > 25G > Linux_Driver. 3. Download the Linux driver package file netxtreme-bnxt_en-<ver>.tar.gz 4.
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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 communication 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.
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