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Super Micro X10DRU-i+ zones #20
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Hi @alexhelms, any feedback on this? |
Hi Peter, I also have an X10DRU-i+ in a SYS-6028U-TR4T+ - it has 4 internal chassis fans. When enabling SMFC in it's default state, the fans respond in one half of the server but not the other it would seem:
I'm not all that familiar with It seems that SMFC is only controlling zone 0 currently - setting both zones to 75% with Config, for good measure:
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Hi @MrMeeb, I'm happy to investigate more on this. My assumption was that this motherboard has multiple CPU zones defined in IPMI. Some further questions:
Based on your report my assumption is that the CPU zone will be FAN1 and FAN2 and the HD zone will be FAN7 and FAN8. |
Hi Peter, 2 CPUs installed - it's a dual socket system. There are 4 fans installed in the 2U chassis, attached to (based on the output of Running I disabled HD zone, yeah. Sorry I forgot to mention that. I was having trouble with it not detecting drives, even SATA ones, via Having done that and now enabled HD zone, I can see that you're right - zone 0 for CPU and zone 1 for drives. However in a rack server I'm not sure if this makes total sense - all 4 fans are responsible for cooling all HDDs and both CPUs. I think having all fans react off CPU temp, unless HDD temp passes a certain threshold, could make sense, but even then, in a mixed load of SSDs and HDDs, what's considered a safe operating temperature varies greatly. As a side note, is it necessary to set
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Hi Charlie, I'm thinking on how I could support this scenario and I've got two ideas in my mind:
BTW, would be interesting to discover the other fan connectors on the motherboard. Would be interesting to understand the mapping between FANS and zones. |
Hi Peter, The length of the fan cables internally mean I can connect all fans to zone 1 in headers 5-8. Good idea. I've done that and swapped the zones so CPU is using zone 1, and the server is currently just not reacting to storage temperature at all. I'd say that being able to have multiple heat sources in a common fan zone would be useful in the long run, but this is definitely workable. Also, every other server I've had/built doesn't account for storage temps anyway. It get's a bit complicated with the different operating temperatures of different storage techs, unless you can specify acceptable temp ranges per drive. I have tested the other fan headers. Fans 1-4 belong to zone 0 and 5-8 belong to zone 1. I also realised I missed |
Hi,
I have an idea that this motherboard has not only two but multiple zones.
You may play with this command
# ipmitool raw 0x30 0x70 0x66 0x01 zone 50
substituting a value for zone parameter (e.g. 0, 1, 2, 3, 4) ad report back the output of the command execution.
This command will set the fan level to 50% in the specified zone. With changing the zone parameter your can discover the potential zones on your motherboard. Of course, connected fans may make this experience easier.
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