User Manual
Table Of Contents
- Safety information
- Chapter 1: Product Introduction
- Chapter 2: Hardware Information
- 2.1 Chassis cover
- 2.2 Central Processing Unit (CPU)
- 2.3 System memory
- 2.4 Storage device
- 2.5 Expansion slot
- 2.5.1 Installing an expansion card to the riser card bracket
- 2.5.2 Installing an ASUS PIKE II card
- 2.5.3 Replacing the ASUS PCIE-NVME2-OCuLink card to the butterfly riser card bracket (for RS500A-E10-RS12U only)
- 2.5.4 Replacing the ASUS PCIE-NVME4-OCuLink card (for RS500A-E10-RS12U only)
- 2.5.5 Installing M.2 (NGFF) cards
- 2.5.6 Installing Mezzanine cards
- 2.5.7 Configuring an expansion card
- 2.6 Cable connections
- 2.7 SATA/SAS backplane cabling
- 2.8 Optional components
- Chapter 3: Installation Options
- Chapter 4: Motherboard Information
- Chapter 5: BIOS Setup
- 5.1 Managing and updating your BIOS
- 5.2 BIOS setup program
- 5.3 Main menu
- 5.4 Advanced menu
- 5.4.1 Trusted Computing
- 5.4.2 PSP Firmware Versions
- 5.4.3 APM Configuration
- 5.4.4 Onboard LAN Configuration
- 5.4.5 Serial Port Console Redirection
- 5.4.6 CPU Configuration
- 5.4.7 PCI Subsystem Settings
- 5.4.8 USB Configuration
- 5.4.9 CSM Configuration
- 5.4.10 NVMe Configuration
- 5.4.11 SATA Configuration
- 5.4.12 Tls Auth Configuration
- 5.4.13 Network Stack Configuration
- 5.4.14 AMD Mem Configuration Status
- 5.4.15 iSCSI Configuration
- 5.5 Performance Tuning menu
- 5.6 Chipset menu
- 5.7 Security menu
- 5.8 Boot menu
- 5.9 Tool menu
- 5.10 Save & Exit menu
- 5.11 AMD CBS menu
- 5.12 Event Logs menu
- 5.13 Server Mgmt menu
- Chapter 6: Driver Installation
- Appendix
Chapter 1: Product Introduction
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1.3 System specifications
The ASUS RS500A-E10 Series is a 1U barebone server system featuring the ASUS
KRPA-U16/SYS Server Board. The server supports AMD EPYC™ 7002 & 7003 Series
processors plus other latest technologies through the chipsets onboard.
Model Name
RS500A-E10-PS4 RS500A-E10-RS4 RS500A-E10-RS12U
Processor Support
1 x Socket SP3 (LGA 4094)
AMD EPYC™ 7002 & 7003 Series Processor (up to TDP 225W)
Memory
Total Slots
16 (8-channel, 2-DIMM per Channel)
Capacity
Maximum up to 2048GB
Memory Type
DDR4 3200/2933/2666 RDIMM/LR-DIMM/LR-DIMM 3DS
Memory Size
32GB, 16GB, 8GB, 4GB (RDIMM)
64GB, 32GB (LRDIMM)
128GB, 64GB (LRDIMM 3DS)
* Refer to www.asus.com for the latest memory AVL update.
Expansion
Slots
Total PCI/
PCI-X/PCI-E
Slots
2+1
Slot Type
- 1 x PCIe 4.0 x16 slot (x16 link); FH, HL (LF only when RS12-U)
- 1 x PCIe 4.0 x16 slot (x8 link); FH, HL (Occupied when RS12-U)
- 1 x OCP 2.0 Mezzanine (x16 link)
Disk
Controller
SATA
Controller
CPU Integrated
SAS Controller
Optional kits:
- ASUS PIKE II 3008 8-port SAS HBA Card
- ASUS PIKE II 3108 8-port SAS HW RAID Card
Support SAS 12Gbps
NVMe
Controller
N/A CPU Integrated
Storage
Bays
I = internal
A or S = hot-
swappable
4 x 3.5” or 2.5” Hot-swap Storage Bays
(SATA/SAS Supported)
12 x 2.5” Hot-swap
Storage Bays (SATA/
SAS/NVMe Supported)
Networking
LAN
2 x 1GbE LAN port
1 x Management port
Optional OCP Adapter:
- 2 or 4 x 1G port
- 2x 10G port
- 2x 25G port or higher bandwidth
Graphic
VGA
Aspeed AST2500 64MB
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