Asus RS920-E7/RS8 User Manual

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Contents
6.2.7 Selecting the boot drive from a RAID set ...................... 6-22
6.2.8 Enabling WriteCache ....................................................
6-23
6.3 Intel
®
Rapid Storage Technology enterprise SCU/SATA
Option ROM Utility .....................................................................
6-24
6.3.1 Creating a RAID set ......................................................
6-26
6.3.2 Creating a Recovery set ...............................................
6-27
6.3.3 Deleting a RAID set ......................................................
6-29
6.3.4 Resetting disks to Non-RAID ........................................
6-30
6.3.5 Exiting the Intel
®
Rapid Storage Technology utility ........ 6-31
6.3.6 Rebuilding the RAID .....................................................
6-31
6.3.7 Setting the Boot array in the BIOS Setup Utility ............
6-33
6.4 Intel
®
Rapid Storage Technology enterprise Utility (Windows) 6-34
6.4.1 Creating a RAID set ......................................................
6-35
6.4.2 Change Volume Type ....................................................
6-37
6.4.3 Delete volume ...............................................................
6-38
6.4.4 Preferences ...................................................................
6-39
Chapter 7: Driver installation
7.1 RAID driver installation ............................................................... 7-2
7.1.1 Creating a RAID driver disk ............................................
7-2
7.1.2 Installing the RAID controller driver ................................
7-4
7.2 Intel
®
chipset device software installation ............................... 7-15
7.3 Intel
@
Network Connections Software installation.................. 7-17
7.4 VGA driver installation
............................................................... 7-20
7.5 Intel
®
C600 Series Chipset SATA RAID Drivers ....................... 7-23
7.6 Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 ..........................................
7-24
7.7 Intel
®
Rapid Storage Technology enterprise 3.0 installation . 7-25
7.8 Intel
®
I350 Gigabit Adapters Driver installation ....................... 7-28
7.9 Management applications and utilities installation ................
7-32
7.9.1 Running the support DVD .............................................
7-32
7.9.2 Drivers menu .................................................................
7-32
7.9.3 Utilities menu ................................................................
7-33
7.9.4 Make disk menu ............................................................
7-33
7.9.5 Contact information .......................................................
7-33
ASUS contact information .......................................................................A-1

Asus RS920-E7/RS8 Specifications

General

Processor family	Intel
Processor socket	LGA 2011 (Socket R)
Intel Xeon series	E5-4600
Motherboard chipset	Intel® C602
Compatible processor series	Intel® Xeon®
Number of processors supported	4
Maximum RDIMM memory	1024 GB
Maximum UDIMM memory	256 GB
Number of DIMM slots	32
Supported memory types	DDR3-SDRAM
Supported RDIMM clock speeds	800, 1066, 1333, 1600 MHz
Supported UDIMM clock speeds	1066, 1333 MHz
Supported DIMM module capacities	16GB, 1GB, 2GB, 4GB, 8GB
RAID levels	0, 1, 5, 10
Hot-swap HDD bays	Yes
Storage drive sizes supported	3.5 \
Number of storage drives supported	8
Supported storage drive interfaces	Serial Attached SCSI (SAS), Serial ATA II, Serial ATA III
Graphics card	AST2300
Graphics card family	Aspeed
Maximum graphics card memory	16 MB
LAN controller	Intel® I350-AM4
Ethernet LAN data rates	10, 100, 1000 Mbit/s
Ethernet interface type	Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet
Chassis type	Rack (2U)
PS/2 ports quantity	1
USB 2.0 ports quantity	6
Ethernet LAN (RJ-45) ports	5
PCI Express x8 slots	2
Compatible operating systems	CentOS 5.6 32/64-bit, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise, Windows Server 2008 Enterprise 32/64-bit, RedHat Enterprise Linux AS5.6/6.0 32/64-bit, SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 11.2 32/64-bit, VMWare ESX4.1/ESXi4.1
Safety	CE, EN55022
Storage temperature (T-T)	-40 - 70 °C
Operating temperature (T-T)	10 - 35 °C
Storage relative humidity (H-H)	20 - 90 %
Power supply	1620 W

Weight and Dimensions

Depth	750 mm
Width	444 mm
Height	88 mm
Weight	20000 g