How to reinstall OS (Linux or Windows) on supermicro with IPMI?

Login to your IPMI (you should have IP address of IPMI and credentials). In order to do it open your favourite FireFox browser and go toHTTPS://YOUR_IPMI_IP/ , then accept all warnings and error messages for SSL certificate and add an exception for the IP. After login you should see following







Click on Remote console preview image to start iKVM java application (you should have Java VM 1.6 installed)


Click Virtual Media menu Item and select Virtual Media from drop down menu


if iKVM unable to connect and shows an error message, you need to reset it from maintenance tab of IPMI home page or even reset whole IPMI module (it could take up to 2 minutes and you will not be able to connect to IPMI during this time)


Go to CDROM&ISO tab


Select ISO file in Logical Drive type drop down


Press Open Image


Select your ISO with your OS installer and press open


Click Plug In






Now your ISO inserted to Virtual CDROM and we will need to boot from it.

3. Click On RESET button from main page of IPMI (see screen-short 1)

4. Go back to iKVM java application and periodically press F11 while server boots to display boot menu.

5. Select IPMI Virtual CDROM and press Enter.






6. Proceed with your favourite OS installation.

NOTE: Do not close java iKVM application while OS installation, it will “eject” your virtual CDROM.

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