For all SuperServer Bundle customers, Wiredzone handles these upgrades for you prior to shipment, along with the DIMM install, and 4 hour burn-in test with certificate. As for updating your BIOS and IPMI firmware to the latest release, you might not have to. I managed to borrow one of each X10SDV system, for VMworld 2016. Unfortunately, I don't own a Flex ATX system to test, but I have heard that boot-from-NVMe does work fine.
Flex ATX releases have historically arrived many months later, see also table below. Note, the Flex ATX E300-8D with the X10SDV-TP8F motherboard has not received a new BIOS. Here's the current Supermicro Xeon D-1500 systems with X10SDV motherboards with RJ45 10GbE, in form factors suited for home and small business (single PSU), eligible for these new August BIOS and June 2017 IPMI releases: Looking to ignore release notes and disclaimers/warnings to get right to the downloads and detailed upgrade procedures? There's no big fix or issue we're trying to resolve here, but if you're still in a hurry to try anyway, jump below. Posted by Paul Braren on (updated on Oct 21 2017) in