Asus RS500-E8-RS4- User Manual

Asus RS500-E8-RS4

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Table of Contents:

  • Page 2 – ii; Copyright © 2014 ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. All Rights Reserved.
  • Page 3 – iii; Contents; Notices vii; REACH vii; Chapter 1: Product Introduction
  • Page 4 – iv; Installation Options
  • Page 5 – Chapter 6: RAID Configuration
  • Page 6 – Rapid Storage Technology enterprise; Exiting the Intel; Intel; Chapter 7: Driver installation; Installing the Intel; Appendix A: Contact Information
  • Page 7 – vii; Notices; Federal Communications Commission Statement; • Consult the dealer or an experienced radio/TV technician for help.; Canadian Department of Communications Statement; REACH
  • Page 8 – Safety information; Electrical Safety; CLASS 1 LASER PRODUCT
  • Page 9 – ix; DO NOT; Australia statement notice
  • Page 10 – About this guide; Audience; knowledge of configuring a server.; This guide contains the following parts:; Chapter 1: Product introduction; panel and rear panel specifications.; Chapter 2: Hardware setup; installing or removing system components.; Chapter 3: Installation options
  • Page 11 – References; ASUS websites; Conventions; Bold text; Command; NOTE
  • Page 12 – xii
  • Page 13 – Product introduction; This chapter describes the motherboard features and the new
  • Page 14 – System package contents
  • Page 15 – Serial number label; xxS0xxxxxxxxxx
  • Page 16 – Chapter 1: Product introduction; System specifications
  • Page 17 – Software
  • Page 18 – Front panel features; Front panel LEDs; Asset tag; to write down important information about to the server.
  • Page 19 – Rear panel features
  • Page 20 – Internal features
  • Page 21 – LED information; LED
  • Page 22 – Status; HDD status LED; SATAII/SAS HDD LED Description
  • Page 23 – Chapter 2; Hardware Information
  • Page 24 – Chassis cover; Removing the rear cover
  • Page 25 – Installing the CPU
  • Page 27 – then
  • Page 28 – Chapter 2: Hardware setup; Carefully remove the PnP cap.
  • Page 29 – matches the triangle mark on the socket box.
  • Page 31 – Apply some Thermal Interface Material
  • Page 32 – System memory; Memory Configurations
  • Page 33 – DIMM; Dual CPU configuration
  • Page 34 – Removing a DIMM; Simultaneously press the retaining; Installing a DIMM; the socket. Apply force to both ends
  • Page 35 – Hard disk drives; side has three holes to fit different types
  • Page 37 – Expansion slot; Installing an expansion card to the riser card bracket; Place the riser card bracket on a flat
  • Page 38 – Installing an M.2 expansion card
  • Page 39 – Installing a Mezzanine card
  • Page 40 – Configuring an expansion card; Standard Interrupt assignments; IRQ
  • Page 41 – Cable connections; Standard cables connected to the motherboard; 4-pin ATX power connector (from power supply to motherboard)
  • Page 42 – SATA/SAS backplane cabling
  • Page 43 – Removable/optional components; section tells how to remove/install the system fans:; System fans; To uninstall the system fans:
  • Page 46 – Chapter 3: Installation options; Tool-less Friction Rail Kit; Installing the tool-less rack rail; To install the tool-less rack rails into the rack:
  • Page 49 – Motherboard Info
  • Page 50 – Chapter 4: Motherboard information; Motherboard layout; Layout contents; Jumpers
  • Page 51 – Baseboard Management Controller LED (BMCLED1)
  • Page 56 – Internal connectors; Supported by the Intel
  • Page 57 – supports up to 480 Mb/s connection speed.
  • Page 66 – Onboard LEDs
  • Page 67 – and quickly identify the server in error on a server rack.
  • Page 68 – and cannot continue to operate.
  • Page 69 – OCPLAN LED connector supports ASUS MCB-10G-2S OCP card Active LED.
  • Page 72 – Chapter 5: BIOS setup; Managing and updating your BIOS; ASUS CrashFree BIOS 3; Updates the BIOS using a USB flash disk.; BUPDATER; Updates the BIOS in DOS mode using a bootable USB flash disk drive.; Recovering the BIOS from a USB flash drive; To recover the BIOS from a USB flash drive:; ASUS CrashFree BIOS 3 utility; file using a USB flash drive that contains the updated BIOS file.
  • Page 73 – ASUS EZ Flash 2 Utility; To update the BIOS using EZ Flash 2 Utility; ASUS Tek. EzFlash Utility
  • Page 74 – BUPDATER utility; bootable USB flash disk drive with the updated BIOS file.; Updating the BIOS file; To update the BIOS file using the BUPDATER utility:; Yes
  • Page 76 – BIOS setup program; provided utility described in section; Managing and updating your BIOS; with its test routines.
  • Page 77 – Menu bar; For changing the basic system configuration; BIOS menu screen
  • Page 78 – Main
  • Page 79 – Main menu; Allows you to set the system date.
  • Page 80 – Advanced menu
  • Page 81 – ACPI Settings; Enable ACPI Auto Configuration [Disabled]; Smart Settings; Allows you to run SMART Self Test on all HDDs during POST.
  • Page 82 – NCT6779D Super IO Configuration; Serial Port 1 / Serial Port 2 Configuration; Allows you to set the parameters of Serial Port 1/ Serial Port 2.
  • Page 83 – Intel LAN I210 Configuration
  • Page 84 – Serial Port Console Redirection; Console Redirection Settings; Allows you to set the terminal type.; Console Redirection; Allows you to enable or disable the console redirection feature.
  • Page 85 – uses two wires to send start/stop signals.; Redirection After BIOS POST [Always Enable]
  • Page 86 – management of a Windows Server OS through a serial port.
  • Page 87 – and
  • Page 88 – PCI Subsystem Settings; Allows you to enable or disable RT32 Image Loading.
  • Page 89 – Network Stack Configuration; Network stack; Wait time to press ESC key to abort the PXE boot.
  • Page 90 – CSM Configuration; This option allows you to enable or disable CSM Support.
  • Page 91 – Configuration
  • Page 92 – USB Mass Storage Driver Support [Enabled]
  • Page 93 – USB hardware delays and time-outs; USB mass storage device start unit command time‐out.
  • Page 94 – IntelRCSetup menu
  • Page 95 – Processor Configuration; Per Socket Configuration; Allows you to enable or disable the Intel
  • Page 97 – Advanced Power Management Configuration; This item allows you to enable power management features.; CPU Advanced PM Turning; performance bias tuning.; Energy Performance Bias setting [Balanced Performance]
  • Page 98 – Common RefCode Configuration; This item enables or disables the Non uniform Memory Access (NUMA).
  • Page 99 – QPI Configuration; QPI General Configuration; This item displays information about the QPI status.; QPI Status
  • Page 100 – Memory Configuration
  • Page 101 – Allows you to enable or disable the DDR4's command address parity.; Memory Topology; Displays memory topology with DIMM population information.; Memory Thermal; Allows you to configure thermal settings.; Memory Power Savings Advanced Options; Allows you to shutdown MDLL during SR when enabled.
  • Page 102 – Memory Map; Select different channel interleaving setting.; Memory RAS Configuration; Allows you to enable or disable Patrol Scrub.
  • Page 103 – PCIE Slot Option ROM Configuration; IIO Configuration; PCI Express Global Options; Use special table for TX_EQ and vendor specific cards.
  • Page 104 – PCH Configuration; PCH Devices
  • Page 105 – PCI Express Root Port 1 to Port 8; Allows you to configure the PCI Express Root port settings.; PCIE ASMP; PCH sSATA Configuration; Allows you to enable or disable the sSATA Controller.; SATA Mode options
  • Page 106 – PCH SATA Configuration; Allows you to enable or disable the SATA Controller.; Support Aggressive Link Power Management [Enabled]; Allows you to enable or disable the SATA port; USB Configuration
  • Page 107 – Platform Thermal Configuration
  • Page 108 – Miscellaneous Configuration; Allows you to select the video type.; Server ME Configuration; Displays the Server ME Technology parameters on your system.
  • Page 109 – Runtime Error Logging; Server Mgmt menu; Software after the OS loads.; Enabled
  • Page 110 – System Event Log; Allows you to change the SEL event log configuration.; SEL Components; Allows you to choose options for erasing SEL.
  • Page 111 – This item allows you to view the system event log records.; IPv6 BMC Network Configuration; Displays the full or brief IPv6 Field.
  • Page 112 – IP BMC Lan IP Address Source; Allows you to enter IPv6 BMC LAN Link IP address.
  • Page 113 – IP BMC Lan Option; Allows you to input IPv6 BMC Lan IP address.
  • Page 114 – Event Logs menu; Change Smbios Event Log Settings; Enabling/Disabling Options
  • Page 115 – Smbios Event Log Standard Settings; as a numeric value in the range 1 to 255.; Custom Option; E n a b l e o r d i s a b l e t h e c o n v e r t i n g o f E F I S t a t u s C o d e s; View Smbios Event Log
  • Page 116 – Monitor menu; more efficient system operation.
  • Page 117 – Security menu; Administrator Password; To set an administrator password:
  • Page 118 – User Password; Confirm the password when prompted.; Secure Boot Menu
  • Page 120 – Boot Option Priorities; installed in the system.; Boot menu; The Boot menu items allow you to change the system boot options.
  • Page 121 – Set the booting order of network devices.; CD/DVD ROM Drive BBS Priorities; Hard Drive BBS Priorities / Network Device BBS Priorities; allow you to set the booting order of the SATA devices.; Tool menu; ASUS EZ Flash; ASUS EZ Flash Utility section for details.
  • Page 122 – Exit menu; Discard Changes & Exit
  • Page 123 – Restore Defaults; Restore/load default values for all the setup options.; Save as User Defaults; Save the changes done so far as User Defaults.; Restore User Defaults; Restore the User Defaults to all the setup options.; Boot Override
  • Page 125 – RAID Configuration; This chapter provides instructions for setting up, creating, and
  • Page 126 – Chapter 5: RAID configuration; Setting up RAID; The motherboard supports the following SATA RAID solutions:; LSI MegaRAID software RAID Configuration Utility; RAID definitions; of the same size or larger than the existing drive.
  • Page 127 – or the; Installing hard disk drives
  • Page 128 – descriptions on the next page.; LSI Software RAID Configuration Utility; Turn on the system after installing all the SATA hard disk drives.
  • Page 129 – Creating a RAID set; Using Easy Configuration; Menu; parameters; Rebuild
  • Page 130 – ARRAY SELECTION MENU; displays the available drives connected to the SATA; to
  • Page 131 – menu that allows you to change the virtual drive parameters.; RAID; Virtual Drive; Select the; RAID
  • Page 134 – Using New Configuration; View/Add Configuration; To create a RAID set using the
  • Page 135 – Adding or viewing a RAID configuration; Adding a new RAID configuration
  • Page 136 – Initializing the virtual drives; virtual drives of a RAID set(s) using the; Using the Initialize command; To initialize the virtual drive using the Initialize command
  • Page 138 – Using the Objects command; To initialize the virtual drives using the; command; Select the virtual drive to initialize from the
  • Page 139 – Select
  • Page 140 – Rebuilding failed drives; You can manually rebuild failed hard disk drives using the; command in the; To rebuild a failed hard disk drive; The; PHYSICAL DRIVES SELECTION MENU; displays the available drives connected
  • Page 141 – When rebuild is complete, press any key to continue.
  • Page 142 – Checking the drives for data consistency; depending on the selected option in the; Using the Check Consistency Command; To check data consistency using the; Check Consistency; drive to check. Press to select the virtual drive from the
  • Page 143 – • Stop
  • Page 145 – Deleting a RAID configuration; To delete a RAID configuration; When prompted, use the arrow keys to select
  • Page 146 – Selecting the boot drive from a RAID set; RAID set. See section
  • Page 147 – Enabling WriteCache
  • Page 148 – Rapid Storage Technology enterprise SATA; The Intel; To launch the Intel; Setting the RAID mode in BIOS
  • Page 149 – To create a RAID set:; Create RAID Volume; From the; Disks; include in the RAID set.
  • Page 150 – Capacity; field item, key in the RAID volume capacity that you want to use and; CREATE VOLUME
  • Page 151 – Deleting a RAID set; To delete a RAID set:; Delete RAID Volume
  • Page 152 – Resetting disks to Non-RAID; From the utility main menu, select
  • Page 153 – Rebuilding the RAID; Rebuilding the RAID with other non-RAID disk; the status of the RAID volume as “; Degraded; ” during POST. You can rebuild the RAID array
  • Page 154 – Rebuilding the RAID with a new hard disk
  • Page 155 – Setting the Boot array in the BIOS Setup Utility; Boot
  • Page 156 – Rescan
  • Page 157 – Create Volume; Enable volume write-back cache; Initialize volume
  • Page 158 – Wait until the process is completed, then click; OK; The RAID set is displayed in the; Volumes; list and you can change the settings in; Volume
  • Page 159 – Changing a Volume Type; To change the volume type in
  • Page 160 – Deleting a volume; field; to delete the volume and return to the utility main menu, or click; Delete volume; in; Volume Properties
  • Page 161 – System Preferences; Allow you to set to sent e-mail of the following events:
  • Page 163 – Driver installation; This chapter provides the instructions for installing the
  • Page 164 – RAID driver installation; Creating a RAID driver disk; Restart the computer, and then enter the BIOS Setup.; Create Driver Diskette Menu, u; Create Driver Diskette Menu
  • Page 165 – Make disk; Insert a floppy disk into the USB floppy disk drive.; to decompress the file into the floppy disk from
  • Page 166 – Chapter 6: Driver installation; Installing the RAID controller driver; During Windows; To install the RAID controller driver when installing Windows; Load Driver
  • Page 167 – into the optical drive. Click; Browse; click; Next
  • Page 168 – using the key when asked if you have the driver disk, then press; Main Menu; Insert the Red Hat; The drivers for the RAID card are installed to the system.; Insert Driver Disk; Red Hat; Boot the system from the Red Hat; and press “OK” to continue.
  • Page 169 – Follow the onscreen instructions to finish the OS installation.; Reboot; Type the following commands when using a Legacy floppy.; reboot; Do you wish to load any more
  • Page 170 – Linux dd blacklist=isci blacklist=ahci nodmraid
  • Page 171 – you like to use and select
  • Page 173 – Preparing the Linux Driver; system to create a 64bit RAID driver for SUSE11 sp1.; image; Copy the contents of the image directory, labeled as; CD Image
  • Page 174 – Installing SUSE 11 Linux OS; Boot the system from the SUSE OS installation CD.; Installation; Boot Options
  • Page 175 – Back; and follow the onscreen instructions to finish the installation.; update medium. Select
  • Page 176 – Management applications and utilities; BIN; Running the Support DVD; The main screen of the Support DVD contains the following tabs:
  • Page 177 – Install the necessary drivers to activate the devices.; Utilities menu tab
  • Page 178 – MakeDisk menu tab
  • Page 179 – Contact information menu
  • Page 180 – chipset device software installation; Administrator; Intel Chipset Device Software
  • Page 183 – Intel(R) PROSet for Windows Device Manager
  • Page 184 – Install; to start the installation.; Finish; to complete the installation.
  • Page 185 – VGA driver installation; You need to manually install the ASPEED VGA driver on a Windows
  • Page 186 – to proceed with the installation.
  • Page 189 – Yes, I want to restart my computer now; and click; to restart your; to complete the setup process.
  • Page 191 – Contact Information
  • Page 192 – Appendix; ASUS contact information; ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.; Telephone; Technical Support
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