User Manual
Table Of Contents
- Safety information
- Chapter 1: Product Introduction
- Chapter 2: Hardware Information
- 2.1 Chassis cover
- 2.2 Air ducts
- 2.3 Central Processing Unit (CPU)
- 2.4 System memory
- 2.5 Storage devices
- 2.6 Expansion slot
- 2.6.1 Installing an expansion card to riser card bracket 1
- 2.6.2 Installing an expansion card to riser card bracket 2
- 2.6.3 Installing an expansion card to riser card bracket 3
- 2.6.4 Installing an expansion card to riser card bracket 4
- 2.6.5 Installing an OCP 3.0 slot baseboard and OCP 3.0 card to the riser card bracket
- 2.6.6 Installing an ethernet expansion card to the riser card bracket
- 2.6.7 Installing GPU cards (on selected models)
- 2.6.8 Installing an ASUS PIKE II card
- 2.6.9 Installing M.2 (NGFF) cards
- 2.6.10 Configuring an expansion card
- 2.7 Cable connections
- 2.8 SATA/SAS backplane cabling
- 2.9 Removable/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 Performance Tuning menu
- 5.5 Advanced menu
- 5.5.1 Trusted Computing
- 5.5.2 PSP Firmware Versions
- 5.5.3 APM Configuration
- 5.5.4 Onboard LAN Configuration
- 5.5.5 Serial Port Console Redirection
- 5.5.6 CPU Configuration
- 5.5.7 PCI Subsystem Settings
- 5.5.8 USB Configuration
- 5.5.9 Network Stack Configuration
- 5.5.10 CSM Configuration
- 5.5.11 NVMe Configuration
- 5.5.12 SATA Configuration
- 5.5.13 AMD Mem Configuration Status
- 5.5.14 iSCSI Configuration
- 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
ASUS RS720A-E11-RS12E
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1.3 System specifications
The ASUS RS720A-E11-RS12E features the ASUS KMPP-D32 server board. The server
supports AMD EPYC™ 7002/7003 Series processors plus other latest technologies through
the chipsets onboard.
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Model Name RS720A-E11-RS12E
Motherboard
KMPP-D32
Processor Support
2 x Socket SP3 (LGA 4094)
AMD EPYC™ 7002/7003 Series
xGMI (External Global Memory Interface Link)
Core Logic
System on Chip (SoC)
Memory
Total Slots
32 (8-channel per CPU, 16 DIMM per CPU)
Capacity
Maximum up to 4096GB
Memory Type
DDR4 3200/2933 RDIMM / LRDIMM / 3DS LRDIMM
* Please refer to www.asus.com for latest memory AVL update
Memory Size
64GB, 32GB, 16GB (RDIMM)
64GB, 128GB (LRDIMM)
64GB, 128GB, 256GB (LRDIMM 3DS / 3DS RDIMM)
* Refer to www.asus.com/support for more information
Expansion
Slots
Total PCI/PCI-E/
PIKE Slots
9
Slot Type
2 x PCIe Gen4 x8 or 1 x PCIe Gen4 x16, FHFL (CPU1 x1)
2 x PCIe Gen4 x8 or 1 x PCIe Gen4 x16, FHFL
or OCP3.0* (CPU1 x1)
4 x
PCIe Gen4 x8 or 2 x PCIe Gen4 x16, FHFL (CPU2 x2)
1 x PCIe Gen4 x8/x16**, LP (CPU2 x1)
* If choosing OCP3.0, another x8 slot will be limited to support PIKE
card only
** If PCIe M.2 is in use, it will operate at x8 link
*** Installing GPU cards will occupy expansion slots
M.2
2 x M.2 (Up to 22110) (CPU2) (Support SATA/PCIe M.2)
Micro SD Card Slot
1
Proprietary Slot 1
1 x PCIe Gen4 x8 (for PIKE card only)
Proprietary Slot 2
4 x 1Gb RJ45 Lan Module Card or
2 x 10Gb RJ45 Lan Module Card
Disk
Controller
SATA
Controller
8 x SATA3 6Gb/s ports
2 x M.2 connectors (SATA 6Gb/s & PCIe Gen4 x4 link)
SAS Controller
Optional:
ASUS PIKE II 3008 8-port SAS 12Gb/s HBA card
ASUS PIKE II 3108 8-port SAS HW 12Gb/s RAID card
Broadcom MegaRAID 9560-16i