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Purley 16dimm dual socket standard motherboard
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Purley 16DIMM Dual Socket Standard Motherboard
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  • Page 1 ® G2DE-B Purley 16DIMM Dual Socket Standard Motherboard User Manual Rev 1.1...
  • Page 2 Product failure or damage caused by the following factors is not covered by the free warranty: A. Damage caused by natural disasters (flood, fire, earthquake, lightning, typhoon, etc.), irresistible external forces or careless operation. B. Disassemble, repair, or send the product to a non-Gooxi certified maintenance ® point for inspection and maintenance.
  • Page 3 All the information contained in this manual, including but not limited to, is protected by the copyright law. Without the permission of Shenzhen Gooxi Information Security Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Gooxi"), it is not allowed to imitate, copy, extract, forward or use for other purposes.
  • Page 4 This chapter provides the detailed description of Gooxi G2DE-B motherboard port. Chapter 3: Motherboard Installation This chapter introduces the installation steps of Gooxi G2DE-B motherboard and components on the motherboard, including the installation description of CPU, heatsink, memory, hard disk, etc.
  • Page 5 Glossary: Name Meaning Intel Xeon ® ® Scalable Processors Platinum Certified power supply is“80 PLUS Platinum”standard, that is, the Platinum Efficiency conversion rate of 20% load is above 90%, that of 50% load is over 94%, and that Power Supply of 100% load is over 91% M.
  • Page 6 Abbreviation: Abbreviation English Chinese Platform Controller Hub 即之前统称的“南桥” Gigabit Ethernet 千兆以太网 Baseboard Management Controller 基板管理控制器 IPMI Intelligent Platform Management Interface 智能平台管理接口 Central Processing Unit 中央处理器 SATA Serial Advanced Technology Attachment 串行 ATA 接口规范 Serial Attached SCSI 串行 SCSI sSATA secondary SATA 扩展...
  • Page 7 Conventions: Caution: It is used to deliver equipment or environmental safety warning messages. If it is not avoided, it may lead to equipment replacement, data loss, equipment performance degradation or other unpredictable results. Warning: It is used to warn potential dangerous situations, which may lead to death or serious personal injury if unavoidable Red arrow: point to a position Blue arrow: action of pulling out or inserting downward or tilting in...
  • Page 8 1.1 Motherboard parameters ............................ 10 1.2 Motherboard features ............................12 Chapter 2: Motherboard Port Details ..........................13 2.1 Overview ................................13 2.1.1 G2DE-B motherboard port & definition ....................14 2.2 Motherboard I / O connector ..........................17 2.2.1 Front panel .............................. 18 2.2.2 LAN admin port ............................19 2.2.3 LAN port ..............................20...
  • Page 9 4.2.13 Network Stack Configuration ....................... 65 4.2.14 iSCSI Configuration ..........................67 4.2.15 Platform Configuration menu ....................... 67 4.2.16 PCH SATA Configuration ........................68 4.2.17 PCH sSATA Configuration ........................69 4.2.18 USB Configuration ..........................70 4.2.19 Miscellaneous Configuration ........................71 4.2.20 Server ME Configuration ........................72 4.2.21 Runtime Error Logging .........................72 4.2.22 Socket Configuration menu ........................
  • Page 10 Chapter 1: Motherboard Introduction 1.1 Motherboard parameters Gooxi G2DE-B type is a standard E-ATX (12" * 13") dual socket server motherboard, which is ® designed based on Intel X86 architecture and adopts Intel Purley platform, based on Intel PCH C621 ®...
  • Page 11 Microsoft® Hyper-V® Citrix® Xen® Server Linux® Kernel Virtual Machine Operating temperature: 10℃~40℃ Non-operating temperature: -40℃ ~70℃ Environment Operating humidity: 8％~90％ (non condensation) Non-operating humidity 5％~90％ (non condensation) Table 1.2 If the specifications are changed, please visit our official website: www.gooxi.com/ www.gooxi.us...
  • Page 12 1.2 Motherboard features Gooxi G2DE-B motherboards have the features of high performance, high reliability, high stability, low power consumption and high customizability: High performance: with Gen2 Intel Xeon Scalable CPU & Intel Lewisburg C621/C622 chipset. High reliability: Gooxi, through professional constant temperature and humidity test equipment, simulates the test of various complex environments (high temperature, low temperature, high and low temperature cycle), etc.
  • Page 13 Motherboard, also known as Mainboard and Systemboard, which installed in the chassis and is one of the most basic and important components of server. This chapter focuses on the port, LED lights and jumpers of G2DE-B motherboard. Figure of G2DE-B...
  • Page 14 2.1.1 G2DE-B motherboard port & definition 1．Diagram of motherboard port position: Fig.2.2...
  • Page 15 2．Motherboard port definition: Connector Name Function BMC Debug Port, for developers to diagnose and debug J11 (BMC Debug Port) BMC functions Onboard VGA Connector, it can be connected to the front panel by cable Front VGA /Real VGA option Two USB2.0 can be connected to the front panel with an adapter Vertical insertion onboard USB3.0 Connector Two USB3.0 can be connected to the front panel with an...
  • Page 16 CONN1 Dual USB3.0 & IPMI dedicated LAN port connector Dual USB2.0 connector J36/J37 1GbE LAN port1/1GbE LAN port2 Real VGA CONN Real UID button PCIE_SLOT1 CPU1 PCI-E 3.0 X8 slot PCIE_SLOT2 CPU1 PCI-E 3.0 X16 slot PCIE_SLOT3 CPU1 PCI-E 3.0 X8 slot PCIE_SLOT4 CPU1 PCI-E 3.0 X16 slot PCIE_SLOT5...
  • Page 17 2.2 Motherboard I / O connector Fig.2.3...
  • Page 18 2.2.1 Front panel The front panel of the motherboard has 2x10pin connectors in total. The connector is reserved, mainly connected to the LED and power switch on the front panel. The power on button is located at the 1st and 2nd pin of the front panel header.
  • Page 19 The power status indicator on the motherboard 3.3V PWR LED lights up when PWROK is started Connect the non-blocked interrupt button, which Ground is not supported by the software Table 2.2 2.2.2 LAN admin port The LAN port is dedicated to IPMI and is used for remote admin of IPMI. CAT5 and above cables are used to access the switch, and can also be directly linked to the customer's host.
  • Page 20 2.2.3 LAN port 2* 1GbE LAN ports, chips adopt and support 1000M to receive / send service data. CAT5 Marvell88E1512 and the above cables are used to access the switch, and can also be directly linked to the customer's host. Locations of LAN ports: Fig.2.7 Data of LAN Port...
  • Page 21 2.2.4 USB Connector Four external USB ports to access USB3.0 and USB2.0 devices. Fig.2.8 2. Two built-in headers USB2.0, USB3.0 Connector and an on-board TYPEA vertical USB3.0 port. Fig.2.9...
  • Page 22 3. The definition of built-in header USB connector is as follows: Built-in USB 3/4(2.0) Header Description Description VCC(5V) VCC(5V) USB P1N USB P2N USB P1P USB P2P Ground Ground Table 2.5 Built-in USB 8/9(3.0) Header Description Description VBUS Power Stda_SSRX- USB3_RN Stda_SSRX+ USB3_RP...
  • Page 23 2.2.5 VGA Connector AST2500 built-in PCIE VGA Controller, one 15 pin VGA connector is used to access the VGA display and output the motherboard information. Location shown as below: Fig. 2.10 2.2.6 COM Connector One 9PIN COM Connector. Location shown as below: Fig.2.1 Fig.2.11...
  • Page 24 2.2.7 Chassis Intrusion & ME Update Chassis Intrusion: Optional function, it means that it will detect and warn when someone opens the chassis. ME Update Jumper: Management Engine (ME) is the chipset management software developed by Intel. When updating the BIOS with ME FW, you need to jump to the 2 and 3 pin, and return to the 1...
  • Page 25 2.2.8 SATA for SATA DOM Connector The motherboard is designed with two SATAs for SATA DOM connectors, all from Intel PCH. Location of SATA Connector : Fig.2.13...
  • Page 26 2.2.9 PCIE Slot The motherboard has 4 PCIE3.0 X16 slots and 2 PCIE3.0 X8 slots. SLOT1, SLOT2, SLOT3 and SLOT4 PCIE slots are from CPU1; SLOT5 and SLOT6 PCI-E slots are from CPU0. Location shown as below: Fig.2.14...
  • Page 27 2.2.10 ATX 24 PIN POWER Connector ATX 24PIN POWER Connector, connect to the motherboard via the 24PIN power cable. The location diagram is as follows: Fig.2.15...
  • Page 28 2.2.11 ATX 8 PIN POWER Connector ATX 8PIN POWER Connector is connected to the motherboard through the 8PIN power cable. The location diagram is as follows: Fig.2.16 Fig.2.16...
  • Page 29 2.2.12 DIMM SLOT The G2DE-B single board supports 2 CPUs. Each CPU supports 6 channels, including 2 DIMMs in channel A / D and 16 DIMMs in the whole board. It is divided into 2 groups according to the CPU type, 8 DIMMs in each group, CPU0 and CPU1.
  • Page 30 2.2.13 CPU SOCKET The motherboard has 2 LGA3467 CPU Sockets, which are used to load the CPU of LGA3647. During CPU installation, note that the installation of the 1 pin. The 1 pin is as follows: the red circle in the figure below shows the 1 pin, which is indicated by a triangular arrow corresponding to the triangular arrow of the CPU.
  • Page 31 2.2.14 SATA SGPIO Header SATA SGPIO Header location is shown as below: Fig.2.19...
  • Page 32 2.2.15 4PIN FAN HEADER The motherboard has eight 4Pin fans as onboard fan connectors, in which the system fan positions are Fan1 - Fan6, Fan A and Fan B, which can be adjusted by PWM. Fan A/B is the port of external card, and the position diagram of fan connector is as follows: Fig.2.20...
  • Page 33 2.2.16 CR2032 BATTERY SOCKET The location diagram of lithium battery on the motherboard is as follows: Lithium Battery Fig.2.21...
  • Page 34 2.2.17 LED in motherboard 8* LEDs in G2DE-B motherboard, which are respectively used to display various functional states of the motherboard, as shown in the table below: Item Location Description Colour BMC heartbeat LED GREEN CPLD heartbeat LED GREEN PCH SATA device active LED...
  • Page 35 2.2.17.1 BMC Heartbeat LED BMC Heartbeat LED Status Description Location BMC Firmware The green indicator flashes at 1Hz Initialization completed BMC Firmware Initialization not The green indicator is off completed Table 2.9 2.2.17.2 UID LED UID LED Status Description Location The user-defined indicator used to identify a specific Blue UID LED lights up motherboard.
  • Page 36 2.2.17.6 Standby Power OK LED Standby Power OK LED Status Description Location Standby PSU OK Yellow indicator on Standby PSU not OK Yellow indicator off Table 2.14 2.2.17.7 PLTRST OK LED PLTRST OK LED Status Description Location MB Reset OK Green indicator on MB Reset not OK Green indicator off...
  • Page 37 2.2.17.9 LAN Port 100/1000M Link LED LAN Port 100/1000M Link LED Status Description Location LAN Port connected to 1000M Link(G2DE-TB Link Green indicator on 10G) LAN Port connected to On RJ45 connector 100M Link(G2DE-TB Link Yellow indicator on LAN Port connected to 10M Yellow indicator off, green indicator off Link Table 2.17...
  • Page 38 2.2.18 M.2 Connector The motherboard is designed to provide one M.2 key M SSD slot, which only supports 2280 size and PCIe signal. SATA Connector’s location is shown as below: Fig.2.23 Fig.2.25...
  • Page 39 2.2.19 RAID key for CPU NVME SSD G2DE-B onboard RAID key for CPU NVME SSD jumper port. Install RAID key on this jumper to support NVME RAID. Jumper position is shown in the figure below: Fig.2.26 Definition of RAID key for CPU NVME SSD jumper Pin:...
  • Page 40 2.2.20 NVMe SMBus Headers NVMe SMBus (I2C) connector ( ) is used for PCI-E SMBus clock and data connection, and JNVI2C1/2 provides hot-plug support through a dedicated SMBus port. This feature applies only to systems with SMCI dedicated NVMe add-on cards and cables installed. The port position is shown in the figure below: Fig.2.27...
  • Page 41 2.2.21 NVMe Connector G2DE-B has 2 NVMe connector ports onboard, and uses 2 NVMe connectors (NVMe1 and NVMe2) to connect high-speed PCI-E storage devices. Note: when installing NVMe equipment on the motherboard, be sure to connect NVMe1 (J29) first to ensure the normal operation of the system.
  • Page 42 The TPM / Port 80 connector is a security device that supports encryption and authentication in the hard disk drive. If the TPM associated with the hard drive is not installed in the system, it allows the motherboard to deny access. The location of TPM header is shown in the following figure: Fig.2.29...
  • Page 43 2.2.23 SATA 3.0 Connection Header G2DE-B board contains 8x I-SATA 3.0 ports (I-Sata 0-3, I-Sata 4-7) and 6x S-SATA (S-SATA 0-3, S- SATA 4, S-SATA 5). These SATA ports are provided by the C621 / C622 chipset. SATA 3.0 connector location is shown in the figure below:...
  • Page 44 2.2.24 Front VGA / Real VGA option G2DE-B integrated 2 VGA ports. When 2 ports are connected to the monitor at the same time, front VGA is preferentially displayed. VGA interface is shown in the figure below: Fig.2.31...
  • Page 45 Chapter 3: Motherboard Installation This chapter introduces the installation steps of Gooxi G2DE-B motherboard and its components, including the installation description of CPU, heatsink, memory, hard disk, etc. 3.1 Motherboard Installation 1. Confirm the screw hole position of the motherboard, as shown in the circle in the following schematic diagram.
  • Page 46 2. Please make sure that the processor purchased belongs to the support type of this motherboard. 3. Please ensure that your CPU uses a Gooxi certified heatsink. 4. When only one CPU is installed on the motherboard, it needs to be installed at CPU1 position, otherwise it cannot be started.
  • Page 47 Fig. 3.5 Step 3: installation of CPU heatsink Installation steps: 3-1. Remove the processor idle bezel (as shown in Fig. 3.6) Fig. 3.6...
  • Page 48 3-2. Align the heatsink with the heatsink-fixing studs on the CPU base, and tighten the fixing screws in sequence according to the instructions. (as shown in Fig. 3.7) Note: the headers on the motherboard are extremely fragile and easy to be damaged. To avoid damaging the motherboard, do not touch the processor or processor socket contacts Fig.
  • Page 49 LRDIMM and 256GB DDR4 memory of 3DS RDIMM. It can support up to 2933MHz (2933MT / s can only be reached when there is a single memory per channel, depending on the CPU SKU). Note: 1. Visit Gooxi official website for AVL Memory List. ®...
  • Page 50 Table 3.1...
  • Page 51 3.3.2 How to install the memory? The eight memory sockets controlled by the motherboard CPU 1 are DIMMA1, A2, DIMMB1, DIMM C1 and DIMM D1, D2, DIMM E1 and DIMM F1. The eight memory sockets controlled by CPU 2 are DIMMA1, A2, DIMMB1, DIMM C1, DIMM D1, D2, DIMM E1 and DIMM F1.
  • Page 52 Fig. 3.11 3.4 M.2 installation Step 1: install locating stud A according to the length of M.2 card. Step 2: install the M.2 card Insert the M.2 card connector end into the motherboard connector, as shown in Fig. 3.12: Fig. 3. 12...
  • Page 53 2-2. Press the other end of the M.2 card to the locating stud in step 1, and fix the screw B, as shown in Fig. 3.13: The installation completion diagram is shown in Fig. 3.14: Fig. 3. 14...
  • Page 54 Chapter 4: BIOS Parameter Settings 4.1 Enter the BIOS setup interface Operation steps: 1. Power on the server motherboard and connect the keyboard; 2. In the process of POST, pay attention to the prompt of entering BIOS Setup interface at the bottom left of LOGO picture, “Press <DEL>...
  • Page 55 BIOS Information Project Version: Displays the version information of the single board BIOS. Build Date and Time: Displays the compilation date and time of the single board BIOS. BMC Firmware Revision: Displays the version information of single board BMC. ME Firmware Version: Displays the version information of single board ME.
  • Page 56 System Time: Display and set the current system time. The system time is 24-hour, and the format is "hour: minute: second". Press “Enter” to switch between hours, minutes and seconds. You can change the value in the following ways： ● Press “+”：The value is increased by 1 ●...
  • Page 57 4.2.4 Trusted Computing Fig. 4. 3 Display and set TCM / TPM module information. Different module options are set differently. Users can set according to Setup help. 4.2.5 Serial Port Console Redirection Fig. 4. 4 Console Redirection:...
  • Page 58 The console redirection switch redirects the information output from the console (such as graphics card) to the display to the serial port. ●Disable the redirection function. ●Enabled the redirection function. Default: Disable 4.2.6 Console Redirection Settings Fig. 4. 5 Terminal Type This option allows you to select the emulation type.
  • Page 59 Parity Serial port redirection checking switch, menu options are: ●None: no check ●Even: even check ●Odd: odd check ●Mark: the check bit is always 1 ●Space: the check bit is always 0 Default: None Checks of Mark and Space are not allowed for error detection. Stop Bits The end of a serial data packet, menu options are: ●1...
  • Page 60 4.2.7 SIO Configuration Fig. 4. 6 4.2.8 [*Active*] Serial Port Fig. 4. 7 Use This Device Use this device, and the menu options are: ●Enabled ●Disable Default: Enable...
  • Page 61 Possible Select the optimal settings for the serial port based on the requirements. The menu options are: ●Use Automatic Settings ●IO=3F8h; IRQ=4; DMA; ●IO=3F8h; IRQ=3,4,5,7,9,10,11,12; DMA; ●IO=2F8h; IRQ=3,4,5,7,9,10,11,12; DMA; ●IO=3E8h; IRQ=3,4,5,7,9,10,11,12; DMA; ●IO=2E8h; IRQ=3,4,5,7,9,10,11,12; DMA; Default: Use Automatic Settings 4.2.9 Option ROM Dispatch Policy Fig.
  • Page 62 Default: Enable On Board Mass Storage Controller Onboard or external equipment controller, menu options are: ●Enabled ●Disable Default: Enable On Board Display Controller Onboard or external equipment controller, menu options are: ●Enabled ●Disable Default: Enable Slot # 1 Empty Onboard or external equipment controller, menu options are: ●Enabled ●Disable Default: Enable...
  • Page 63 ●Enabled ●Disable Default: Enable SR-IOV Support SR-IOV Support switch setting, and the menu options are: ●Enabled ●Disable Default: Enable 4.2.11CSM Configuration Fig. 4. 10 CSM Support Turn on or off the compatible support module. The menu options are: ●Disable ●Enable Default: Enable GateA20 Active Control mode setting of A20 address line, menu options are:...
  • Page 64 Start the option control switch, and the menu options are: ●UEFI and Legacy: UEFI and Legacy startup items ●UEFI only: UEFI startup item ●Legacy only: Legacy startup item Default: UEFI and Legacy Option ROM Policy Select Option ROM execution mode, and the menu options are: ●UEFI: UEFI mode ●Legacy: Legacy mode Default: UEFI...
  • Page 65 Fig. 4. 12 Displays the details of the NVMe hard drive. 4.2.13Network Stack Configuration Fig. 4. 13 Network Stack Network stack control switch, menu options are: ●Enabled ●Disable Default: Disable...
  • Page 66 Ipv4 PXE Support Ipv4 UEFI PXE Function control switch, menu options are: ●Enabled ●Disable Default: Disable Ipv4 HTTP Support Ipv4 HTTP Function control switch, menu options are: ●Enabled ●Disable Default: Disable Ipv6 PXE Support Ipv6 UEFI PXE Function control switch, menu options are: ●Enabled ●Disable Default: Disable...
  • Page 67 4.2.14iSCSI Configuration Fig. 4. 14 4.2.15Platform Configuration menu Fig. 4. 15 ●PCH SATA Configuration ●PCH sSATA Configuration...
  • Page 68 ●USB Configuration ●Miscellaneous Configuration ●Server ME Configuration ●Runtime Error Logging 4.2.16PCH SATA Configuration Fig. 4. 16 SATA Controller SATA Controller Switch controls the opening and closing of SATA controller. The menu options are: ●Disable SATA Controller ●Enabled SATA Controller Default: Enable Configure SATA as SATA Mode selection, menu options are: ●AHCI: select SATA mode as AHCI mode...
  • Page 69 Display SATA Port 0~7 device information. When the device is not connected, it is displayed as Not Installed. Port X Control turning off/on SATA Port X, menu options are: ●Disable SATA Port X. ●Enabled SATA Port X. Default: Enable Hot Plug Control turning off/on the hot plug function of SATA port x device.
  • Page 70 SATA test mode SATA Test mode switch, menu options are: ●Disable ●Enable Default: Disable sSATA Port X Display sSATA Port 0~7 device information. When the device is not connected, it is displayed as Not Installed. Port X Control sSATA Port X turning on/off, menu options are: ●Disable sSATA Port X ●Enabled sSATA Port X Default: Enable...
  • Page 71 Default: Enable 4.2.19 Miscellaneous Configuration Fig. 4. 19 PCH state after G3 PCH state after G3 Status setting, menu options are: ●S0: power on directly ●S5: press the power button to power on ●leave power state unchanged: keep the power state unchanged Default: S0 Max Page Table Size Select The menu options are:...
  • Page 72 4.2.20 Server ME Configuration Fig. 4. 20 Display Server ME version, features, status and other information 4.2.21 Runtime Error Logging Fig. 4. 21 System Errors Turn on/off the system error function. The menu options are: ●Disable...
  • Page 73 ●Enable Default: Enable 4.2.22Socket Configuration menu Fig. 4. 22 ●Processor Configuration ●Common RefCode Configuration ●UPI Configuration ●Memory Configuration ●IIO Configuration ●Advanced Power Management Configuration...
  • Page 74 4.2.23Processor Configuration Fig. 4. 23 Fig. 4. 24 Display information of CPU Type\ID\Speed\Cache, etc, configuring CPU functions. ●Pre-Socket Configuration Hyper-Threading Hyper-Threading control switch, which enables or disables the hyper-threading function of Intel CPU. When enabling this function, each physical processor core is equivalent to 2 logical processor cores; When this function is Disable, each physical processor core is equivalent to only 1 logical processor core.
  • Page 75 of the application. The menu options are: ●Enable ●Disable Default: Enable Max CPUID Value Limit When starting a traditional operating system that cannot support extended CPUID, the menu options are: ●Enable ●Disable Default: Disable Enable Intel(R) TXT Intel TXT function switch, menu options are: ●Enable ●Disable Default: Disable...
  • Page 76 Menu options are: ●Enable ●Disable Default: Enable DCU IP Prefetcher Menu options are: ●Enable ●Disable Default: Enable LLC Prefetcher Menu options are: ●Enable ●Disable Default: Disable DCU Mode Menu options are: ●32KB 8Way Without ECC: 32KB 8 way without ECC ●16KB 4Way With ECC: 16KB 4way with ECC Default: 32KB 8Way Without ECC Extended APIC...
  • Page 77 4.2.24Common RefCode Configuration Fig. 4. 25 MMIO High Base Select MMIO High Base. The menu options are: ●56T ●40T ●24T ●16T ●4T ●1T Default: 56T MMIO High Granularity Size Select MMIO High Granularity Size. The menu options are: ●1G ●4G ●16G ●64G ●256G...
  • Page 78 4.2.25UPI Configuration Fig. 4. 26 ●UPI Status: UPI link status submenu, which displays the current UPI link status Degrade Precedence When the system settings conflict, set Topology Precedence to down feature, or by setting Feature Precedence to down Topology, the menu options are: ●Topology Precedence ●Feature Precedence Default: Topology Precedence...
  • Page 79 The menu options are: ●Disable ●Enable ●Auto Default: Auto Sub NUMA cluster settings, menu options are: ●Disable ●Enable ●Auto Default: Disable XPT Prefectch XPT Prefectch, menu options are: ●Disable ●Enable ●Auto Default: Auto KTI Prefectch KTI Prefectch, menu options are: ●Disable ●Enable ●Auto...
  • Page 80 4.2.26Memory Configuration Fig. 4. 27 Enforce POR To enforce POR settings, the menu options are: ●Auto ●POR: enforce POR ●Disable Default: Auto Memory Frequency The menu options are: ●Auto ●800 ●1000 ●1066 ●1200 ●1333 ●1400 ●1600 …… Default: Auto Data Scrambling for NVDIMM The menu options are: ●Auto ●Disable...
  • Page 81 ●Disable ●Enable Default: Auto Enable ADR The menu options are: ●Disable ●Enable Default: Enable Legacy ADR Mode The menu options are: ●Disable ●Enable Default: Enable ADR Data Save Mode The menu options are: ●Disable ●Batterybacked DIMMs ●NVDIMMs Default: NVDIMMs Erase-ARM NVDIMMs The menu options are: ●Disable ●Enable...
  • Page 82 Memory RAS Configuration: Memory RAS Configuration submenu. 4.2.27Memory Topology Fig. 4. 28 Displays the current in-place memory details...
  • Page 83 4.2.28Memory Map Fig. 4. 29 Volatile Memory Mode Volatile memory mode setting, menu options are: ●1LM ●2LM ●Auto Default: Auto 1LM Memory Interleave Granularity The menu options are: ●Auto ●256B Target, 256B Channel ●64B Target, 64B Channel Default: Auto IMC Interleaving The menu options are: ●Auto ●1-way Interleavel...
  • Page 84 The menu options are: ●Auto ●1-way Interleavel ●2-way Interleavel ●4-way Interleavel ●8-way Interleavel Default: Auto Socket Interleave Below 4GB The menu options are: ●Enable ●Disable Default: Disable 4.2.29Memory RAS Configuration Fig. 4. 30 Static Virtual Lockstep Mode The menu options are: ●Enable ●Disable Default: Disable...
  • Page 85 ●Enable ●Disable Default: Disable Memory Rank Sparing The menu options are: ●Enable ●Disable Default: Disable Correctable Error Threshold: The valid values are 0x01-0x7fff, and the default value is 0x7FFF. SDDC SDDC switch setting. Note: not supported when exists The menu options are: AEP DIMM ●Enable ●Disable...
  • Page 86 4.2.30IIO Configuration Fig. 4. 31 SocketN Configuration Use to set the Link speed, Max Payload Size, ASPM and other settings on the PCIe of CPU0, and display the link status, maximum link, current link rate, etc. of the current PCIe port. Intel(R) VT for Directed I/O(VT-d) Intel VT-d Technology related setting submenu, Intel vt-d technology switch setting;...
  • Page 87 ●Auto ●128B ●256B ●512B ●1024B ●2048B ●4096B Default: Auto 4.2.31Advanced Power Management Configuration Fig. 4. 32 CPU P State Control Hardware PM State Control CPU C State Control Package C State Control CPU-Advanced PM Tuning Socket RAPL Configuration...
  • Page 88 4.2.32CPU P State Control Fig. 4. 33 Uncore Freq Scaling(UFS) The menu options are: ●Enable ●Disable Default: Enable Config TDP The menu options are: ●Normal ●Level 1 ●Level 2 Default: Normal Turbo Mode The menu options are: ●Enable ●Disable Default: Enable...
  • Page 89 4.2.33Hardware PM State Control Fig. 4. 34 Hardware P-State Hardware selects whether the P-State is set actively by OS. The default value is determined on the actual test. The menu options are: ●Disable: Hardware selection P-States based on traditional OS requests ●Native Mode: Hardware selection P-State based on traditional OS guide ●Out of Band Mode: automatic hardware selection, no OS boot required ●Native Mode with No Legacy Support...
  • Page 90 4.2.34CPU C State Control Fig. 4. 35 Autonomous Core C-State The menu options are: ●Enable ●Disable Default: Disable CPU C6 report Report the C6 status switch settings to the OS, and the menu options are: ●Disable ●Enable ●Auto Default: Auto Enhanced Halt State(C1E) The menu options are: ●Disable...
  • Page 91 4.2.35Package C State Control Fig. 4. 36 Package C State The menu options are: ●C0/C1 state ●C2 state ●C6(non Retention) state ●C6(Retention) state ●No Limit Default: Auto...
  • Page 92 4.2.36CPU-Advanced PM Tuning Fig. 4. 37 Energy Perf BIAS: CPU power-saving performance related option settings 4.2.37Energy Perf BIAS Fig. 4. 38...
  • Page 93 Power Performance Tuning Power-saving performance adjustment settings, menu options are: ●OS Controls EPB: OS controls power-saving performance adjustment ●BIOS Controls EPB: BIOS controls power-saving performance adjustment Default: OS Controls EPB ENERGY_PERF_BIAS_CFG Mode Power-saving performance management settings. When power performance tuning is set to BIOS Control EPB, this item can be set.
  • Page 94 ●Enabled ●Disable Default: Enable FRB-2 Timer timeout FRB-2 Timer timeout setting, menu options are: ●3 minutes ●4 minutes ●5 minutes ●6 minutes Default: 6 minutes FRB-2 Timer Policy For the policy setting after FRB-2 timer timeout, the menu options are: ●Do Nothing ●Reset ●Power Down...
  • Page 95 4.2.39System Event Log menu Fig. 4. 40 SEL Components Start the process system event recording function control switch, menu options: ●Enabled ●Disable Default: Enable Erase SEL Clear the system event recording control switch, menu options: ●No ●Yes, On next reset ●Yes, On every reset Default: No When SEL is Full...
  • Page 96 4.2.40BMC network configuration menu Fig. 4. 41 Fig. 4. 42...
  • Page 97 Fig. 4. 43 Configure IPV4 support BMC sharelink Management Channel Configuration Address source Configure BMC IP address allocation mode, and the menu options are: ●Unspecified: do not change BMC Parameters ●Static: BIOS static IP configuration ●DynamicBmcDhcp: BMC runs DHCP to dynamically allocate IP ●DynamicBmcNonDhcp: BMC runs Non-DHCP Protocol dynamic allocation IP Default: Unspecified Change from Unspecified to other parameters.
  • Page 98 When the Configuration Address source option is Unspecified, the network parameter information (IPV4) of the system's private LAN port, current IP configuration mode, BMC IP, subnet mask, MAC address, routing IP and routing Mac will be displayed; Configure IPV6 support BMC Sharelink Management Channel IPV6 Support Select whether to support IPv6.
  • Page 99 4.2.41View System Event Log menu Fig. 4. 44 View system event log information. Note that when entering this menu, BIOS needs to read SEL data and wait for a period of time. 4.2.42BMC User Setting Fig. 4. 45...
  • Page 100 ●Add User: Add user submenu ●Delete User: Delete user submenu ●Change User Setting: Change user setting submenu 4.2.43Add User Fig. 4. 46 User Name: user name setting. The maximum number of characters supported is 16. User Password: user password setting. Password characters must include uppercase and lowercase letters, special characters and numbers, with a minimum of 8 characters and a maximum of 20 characters.
  • Page 101 4.2.44Delete User Fig. 4. 47 User Name: enter the user name to be deleted. User Password: enter the password of the user to be deleted. After the password is entered correctly, a prompt "User Delete!!!" will show. The user who is successfully deleted will take effect in BMC immediately, and the user will not be able to log in to BMC web interface.
  • Page 102 4.2.45Change User Setting Fig. 4. 48 User Name: enter the user name to be modified. User Password : enter the user password to be modified. The following options can be modified only if the name and password are entered correctly. User User permission switch settings, menu options are: ●Enabled...
  • Page 103 4.2.46Security menu Fig. 4. 49 Administrator Password: Select this option to set the administrator password; User Password: Select this option to set the user password; Administrator Password: Display status of administrator password. If there is an administrator password in the system, it displays Installed.
  • Page 104 4.2.47Boot menu Fig. 4. 50 Setup Prompt Timeout: Setup prompts timeout setting. Set the time to wait for the Setup activation key. The maximum value is 65535 seconds. The default value is 1. Bootup Numlock State During startup, the keyboard NumLock indicator status switch is set, and the menu options are ●On ●OFF Default: On...
  • Page 105 4.2.48Save & Exit menu Fig. 4. 51 Save Changes and Exit: Save the settings and exit the BIOS Setup menu; Discard Changes and Exit: Discard the save settings and exit the BIOS Setup menu; Save Changes and Reset: Save the settings and restart the system; Discard Changes and Reset: Discard the saved settings and restart the system;...
  • Page 106 4.3 User action reminder 1. With option, when user operation is required, understand the operation specification in detail. 2. When operating the option, please understand the meaning of the option in combination with the operation manual and the option description of BIOS Setup interface.
  • Page 107 Chapter 5 IPMI Deployment 5.1 Fast development of IPMI How to fast deploy the IPMI function of the server is shown in Figure 5-1. Fig5.1 5.1.1 Confirm the motherboard supports IPMI function Check your motherboard manual and confirm that your motherboard supports IPMI, and then find the dedicated IPMI network port of the motherboard, or select the shared LAN port, as shown in Figure 5.2 Dedicated...
  • Page 108 5.1.2 Enter BIOS to set IPMI function Restart your system. Press ESC or DEL to enter the BIOS system of the motherboard while the device is started. The BIOS setting interface is shown in Fig. 5.3 Fig5.3 After entering the interface, switch the menu item to the Server Mgmt through the left and right keys. Fig5.4...
  • Page 109 Enter the BMC network configuration option through the keyboard, and the following interface will be entered, as shown in Fig. 5.5 Fig5.5 On this page, you can see two configurable LAN ports, one dedicated LAN port and the other as Sharelink shared LAN port.
  • Page 110 5.1.3 IPMI interface configuring Static mode If you choose to configure Static mode for IPMI interface, you should pay attention to the following problems: (1) If there are multiple IPMI devices in your LAN, you should pay attention to the IP address between devices can not be repeated, otherwise communication can not be established.
  • Page 111 5.1.4 IPMI configuring Java SOL 1.When the system starts up, press the<Del> key to enter the BIOS Setup interface. 2.Switch to the Advanced menu, select Serial Port Console Redirection, and press the < ENTER > key. 3.Make sure that the Console Redirection of COM0 is in [Enabled] state. If not, select Console Redirection and press <...
  • Page 112 5.2 IPMI quick introduction of functions After completing the previous configuration steps, we can start to log in to the IPMI management interface. The IPMI management interface can be accessed by using a standard web browser. Here, we recommend using Google Chrome, Firefox and IE browser (IE11 or above) to obtain the best browsing experience.
  • Page 113 Fig5.9 Default user name and password Factory default user name: admin Factory default password: admin When you log in with this user name, you will get all the privileges of the administrator. It is recommended that you modify your password after logging in. 5.2.2 IPMI Management system content When you log in to the IPMI management system correctly, you can see the page as shown in Figure.
  • Page 114 Firmware information includes BMC firmware version information, BIOS version information, motherboard CPLD version information, backplane CPLD version information and BMC firmware compilation time information. Network information includes MAC address of system network and BMC network information. You can choose to view the shared network port or private network port of BMC. BMC network information includes BMC network MAC address information, IPV4 network mode information, IPV4 address information, IPV6 network mode information and IPV6 address information.
  • Page 115 Fig5.11 As shown in Fig. 5.12, KVM can be started under the remote control menu KVM & Java SOL. Fig5.12...
  • Page 116 KVM interface introduction Fig5.13 As shown in Fig. 5.13, it is the KVM interface after starting KVM. As shown in Fig. 5.14, the KVM interface includes two parts: one is the menu and quick operation column, and the other is the remote desktop window, that is, the server desktop information returned remotely.
  • Page 117 Remote control shortcut operation Table5.1 5.2.4 SOL introduction Click Java SOL on the page shown in Fig. 5.12 to open the interface shown in Fig. 5.15. Fig5.15...
  • Page 118 Save the file and open it. You will see the SOL login interface shown in Fig. 5.16 below. Fig5.16 On this interface you need to enter parameters related to BMC IP, Username, Password and baud rate. BMC IP is the IPMI IP configured above for you. Username and Password are both by default. Baud rate is 115.2k.
  • Page 119 5.3 Other ways to connect to IPMI AST2500 firmware complies with the IPMI 2.0 specification, so users can use standard IPMI drivers assigned by the operating system. 5.3.1 IPMI driver AST2500 supports Intel referenced drivers, which can be obtained from the following website: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/servers/ipmi/ipmi-technical-resources.html through Windows Server 2003 R2, Microsoft also provides the IPMI driver package.
  • Page 120 Chapter 6: RAID Setting 6.1 Configuring RAID in UEFI boot mode Operation before configuring RAID  a) During server startup, press Delete / ESC to enter the BIOS Setup interface b) Move to PlatForm interface-->PCH Configuration-->PCH SATA Configuration-->Configure SATA as. Configure SATA to RAID mode, as shown in figure 6.1 Fig.6.1 c) Ensure that storage and video in CSM configuration are in UEFI mode, as shown in Fig.
  • Page 121 Fig. 6.3 Intel RSTe SATA Controller  Fig.6.3  Crate RAID a) Select Create RAID Volume, and press enter. Fig.6.4 b) Change the name of RAID to be created. Note it cannot contain special characters. As shown in Fig. 6.5...
  • Page 122 Fig.6.5 c) RAID Level: select the RAID level, as shown in Fig. 6.6 Fig.6.6 d) Select Disks: press the spacebar to select the disks that need to participate in configuring RAID. As shown in Fig. 6.7...
  • Page 123 Fig.6.7 e) Select Create Volume and press enter to configure the RAID.  Description of parameters is shown in Table 6.1: Parameters Description Name Name of RAID. It determines the performance, fault tolerance and capacity RAID Level of logical disk. Select the member disks that make up the RAID.
  • Page 124 Fig.6.8 b) Enter the interface shown in Fig. 6.9, select "Mark as Spare" and press enter. Fig.6.9 c) Enter the interface shown in Fig. 6.0, select "Yes", and press Enter to complete the hot spare configuration.
  • Page 125 Fig.6.10  Delete RAID a) Enter RSTe configuration interface. b) As shown in Fig. 6.11, select the RAID to be deleted under the RAID volumes directory and press enter. Fig.6.11 c) Enter the RAID information interface shown in Fig. 6.12, select Delete and press Enter to delete RAID.
  • Page 126 Fig.6.12...
  • Page 127 6.2 Configuring RAID in Legacy startup mode  Set up RSTe work mode a) Enter BIOS Setup interface. b) Move to PlatForm interface-->PCH Configuration-->PCH Sata Configuration Fig.6.13 RSTe onboard soft RAID has SATA and sSATA controllers, which respectively manage the disks connected to the two interfaces of the RAID card.
  • Page 128 Fig.6.15 If the working mode of both sSATA and SATA controllers is set to RAID, the prompt "Press <CTRL- I> to enter Configuration Utility" will appear twice during BIOS startup, corresponding to sSATA and SATA controllers in turn. Please select the controller according to the disks required to configure RAID. Enter the RSTe configuration interface shown in Fig.
  • Page 129  Table 6.2 RSTe configuration interface description Option Description Located on the upper side of the interface, you can perform the following tasks: Create RAID Volume MAIN MENU Delete RAID Volume Reset Disks to Non-RAID Mark Disks as Spare Exit DISK/VOLUME Located on the lower side of the configuration INFORMATION...
  • Page 130 Fig.6.18  Table 6.3 Parameter Description Parameter Description Name Name of RAID. RAID It determines the performance, fault tolerance and capacity Level of logical disk. Select the member disks that make up the RAID. After Disks selecting the disks column, press Enter and press Space to select the disk.
  • Page 131 d) Enter the interface shown in Fig. 6.19 to view the details of RAID (including RAID name, level, disk information, etc.). Fig.6.19 Configure a hot spare: a) Enter RSTe configuration interface. As shown in Fig. 6.20, select Mark Disks as Spare from RSTe configuration interface, press Enter. Fig.6.20 Enter interface shown in Fig.
  • Page 132 Fig.6.21 On the RSTe configuration interface, you can see the hot spare information, as shown in Fig. 6.22. Fig.6.22 Delete RAID: a) Enter RSTe configuration interface. As Fig. 6.23 shown, select Delete RAID Volume from RSTe, and press Enter.
  • Page 133 Fig.6.23 Enter the interface shown in Fig. 6.24, select the RAID to be deleted, and press Delete to complete the deletion. Fig.6.24...
  • Page 134 Chapter 7: Specifications Model G2DE-B/G2DE-TB Gen1 & Gen2 Intel Xeon Scalable processors ® ® Chipset C621/ C622(G2DE-B/G2DE-TB) Motherboard Size E-ATX BMC chip ASPEED AST2500 Fan Temperature Features Supports Control Supports Status Alarm Slot Amount 16 Total Capacity Up to 4056GB...
  • Page 135 Windows® Server 2012 R2 (64bit) Windows® Server 2016 (64bit) Redhat® Enterprise Linux Server 7.3(64bit) Suse® Enterprise Linux Server 12.2(64bit) Centos® Enterprise Linux Server 7.3(64bit) Ubuntu® Server 16.04(64bit) VMWare® ESXi Microsoft® Hyper-V® Citrix® Xen® Server Linux® Kernel Virtual Machine Operating temperature: 10℃~40℃ Non-operating temperature:-40℃...