AM4/TR4/SP3 Mobos with IPMI/BMC
Posted: Mon Oct 28, 2019 9:57 pm
Guide to BMC/IPMI ("Explaining the Baseboard Management Controller or BMC in Servers"):
https://www.servethehome.com/explaining ... n-servers/
BMC/IPMI offers onboard chip based remote management including BIOS + OS level (java/HTML5) KVM, as well as centralized management of temps, power, fans, etc.
This is how servers are managed remotely; unfortunately previously IPMI was never built into consumer mobos/cpus.
However with the power of Ryzen CPUs now outperforming Xeons, some manufacturers are now slowly releasing mobos.
After months of research, I thought I would share the only 3 available Ryzen mobos with IPMI:
AM4 Mobo:
ASROCK Rack X470D4U
https://www.asrockrack.com/general/prod ... ifications
[comments: I have not done any investigation into this (eg CPU coolers etc) as I only really need TR4 mobos]
* Supports AMD AM4 Socket Ryzen™ PRO/ Ryzen™ 2nd and 3rd generation series processors
* Supports 4x DDR4 ECC and non-ECC UDIMM, max. 32 GB
* Supports up to 6 x SATA3 6.0Gb/s
* Integrated IPMI 2.0 with KVM and Dedicated LAN (RTL8211E)
* Supports 2x GLAN by Intel I210AT
TR4 Mobos:
ASROCK Rack X399D8A-2T
https://www.asrockrack.com/general/prod ... ifications
[comments: A great looking mobo let down by the fact that the RAM/CPU socket are facing the wrong direction for high TDP TR2 CPU coolers!]
* Supports AMD TR4 Socket Ryzen Threadripper Series CPUs
* Support quad channel DDR4 total 8 DIMM slots
* Support 8x SATA 6Gb/s by AMD X399 and 2x SATA 6Gb/s by Asmedia 1061
* Support 2x M.2 (PCIe3.0 x4) up to 22110 form factor
* Support 3x PCIe 3.0 x16、2x PCIe 3.0 x8
* Support Dual 10GbE by Intel X550-AT2
Tyan Tomcat EX S8020
https://www.tyan.com/Motherboards_S8020_S8020AGM2NR-EX
[comments: A great looking mobo let down by the fact that it doesnt seem to be available practically anywhere just yet!]
* 12" x 9.6" ATX form factor
* X399 chipset w/ 8 DIMM slots
* 2 1000Base-T LAN w/ shared IPMI port
* 4 PCIe Gen.3 x16 slots (1 in x8 link)
* 1 PCIe Gen.2 x8 slot (w/ x4 link)
* 7.1 channel HD audio
* AST2500 BMC with IPMI v2.0 support
https://www.servethehome.com/explaining ... n-servers/
BMC/IPMI offers onboard chip based remote management including BIOS + OS level (java/HTML5) KVM, as well as centralized management of temps, power, fans, etc.
This is how servers are managed remotely; unfortunately previously IPMI was never built into consumer mobos/cpus.
However with the power of Ryzen CPUs now outperforming Xeons, some manufacturers are now slowly releasing mobos.
After months of research, I thought I would share the only 3 available Ryzen mobos with IPMI:
AM4 Mobo:
ASROCK Rack X470D4U
https://www.asrockrack.com/general/prod ... ifications
[comments: I have not done any investigation into this (eg CPU coolers etc) as I only really need TR4 mobos]
* Supports AMD AM4 Socket Ryzen™ PRO/ Ryzen™ 2nd and 3rd generation series processors
* Supports 4x DDR4 ECC and non-ECC UDIMM, max. 32 GB
* Supports up to 6 x SATA3 6.0Gb/s
* Integrated IPMI 2.0 with KVM and Dedicated LAN (RTL8211E)
* Supports 2x GLAN by Intel I210AT
TR4 Mobos:
ASROCK Rack X399D8A-2T
https://www.asrockrack.com/general/prod ... ifications
[comments: A great looking mobo let down by the fact that the RAM/CPU socket are facing the wrong direction for high TDP TR2 CPU coolers!]
* Supports AMD TR4 Socket Ryzen Threadripper Series CPUs
* Support quad channel DDR4 total 8 DIMM slots
* Support 8x SATA 6Gb/s by AMD X399 and 2x SATA 6Gb/s by Asmedia 1061
* Support 2x M.2 (PCIe3.0 x4) up to 22110 form factor
* Support 3x PCIe 3.0 x16、2x PCIe 3.0 x8
* Support Dual 10GbE by Intel X550-AT2
Tyan Tomcat EX S8020
https://www.tyan.com/Motherboards_S8020_S8020AGM2NR-EX
[comments: A great looking mobo let down by the fact that it doesnt seem to be available practically anywhere just yet!]
* 12" x 9.6" ATX form factor
* X399 chipset w/ 8 DIMM slots
* 2 1000Base-T LAN w/ shared IPMI port
* 4 PCIe Gen.3 x16 slots (1 in x8 link)
* 1 PCIe Gen.2 x8 slot (w/ x4 link)
* 7.1 channel HD audio
* AST2500 BMC with IPMI v2.0 support