User Manual
Table Of Contents
- Safety information
- Chapter 1: Product Introduction
- Chapter 2: Hardware Setup
- 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 slots
- 2.6.1 Installing an expansion card to the front PCIe expansion card bracket (on select models)
- 2.6.2 Installing an ASUS PIKE II or RAID card
- 2.6.3 Installing the Cache Vault Power Module
- 2.6.4 Installing an expansion card to the rear PCIe expansion card slots (on select models)
- 2.6.5 Installing an OCP 3.0 card to the rear OCP 3.0 socket board (on select models)
- 2.6.6 (optional) Installing the PFR module
- 2.7 Cable connections
- 2.8 Removable/optional components
- 2.9 Rail kit options
- Chapter 3: Motherboard Information
- Chapter 4: BIOS Setup
- 4.1 Managing and updating your BIOS
- 4.2 BIOS setup program
- 4.3 Main menu
- 4.4 Performance Tuning menu
- 4.5 Advanced menu
- 4.5.1 Trusted Computing
- 4.5.2 ACPI Settings
- 4.5.3 Redfish Host Interface Settings
- 4.5.4 Onboard LAN Configuration
- 4.5.5 Serial Port Console Redirection
- 4.5.6 SIO Configuration
- 4.5.7 PCI Subsystem Settings
- 4.5.8 USB Configuration
- 4.5.9 Network Stack Configuration
- 4.5.10 NVMe Configuration
- 4.5.11 APM Configuration
- 4.5.12 T1s Auth Configuration
- 4.5.13 Third-party UEFI driver configurations
- 4.6 Platform Configuration menu
- 4.7 Socket Configuration menu
- 4.8 Security menu
- 4.9 Boot menu
- 4.10 Tool menu
- 4.11 Event Logs menu
- 4.12 Server Mgmt menu
- 4.13 Save & Exit menu
- Chapter 5: RAID Configuration
- Chapter 6: Driver Installation
- Appendix
ASUS ESC8000-E11
1-5
Model Name ESC8000-E11
Storage Bays
Storage Bays
8 x 3.5”/2.5” Front Hot-swap* Storage Bays
- Backplane supports up to 8 x NVMe**/SATA/SAS***
* Only NVMe storage devices are hot-swappable
** NVMe support on selected SKUs
*** SAS support requires an optional HBA/RAID card
Backplane
Connectors
8 x MCIO connectors for NVMe
2 x Mini SAS HD for 8 x SATA
Motherboard
Connectors
4 x MCIO connectors (x8 link) for PCIe slots or NVMe
Default Cables
2 x backplane MCIO cables
Networking LAN
1 x Dual Port Intel
®
I350 1GbE/X710-AT2 10GbE LAN controller
1 x Management port
VGA
Aspeed AST2600 64MB
Graphic
Up to 8 double-deck GPU cards
Front I/O
2 x USB 3.2 Gen1 ports
1 x VGA port
Rear I/O
1 x COM port
2 x RJ-45 LAN ports
1 x RJ-45 Management LAN port
Switch/LED
Front: Rear:
1 x Power switch/LED 1 x Power switch/LED
1 x Location switch/LED
1 x Location switch/LED
1 x Q-Code/Port 80 LED
1 x Clear CMOS switch
1 x Reset switch
2 x LAN LED
1 x Message LED
1 x M.2 LED
Security Options
TPM-SPI / PFR (Optional)
OS Support
Windows
®
Server, RedHat
®
, SuSE
®
, CentOS, Ubuntu, Vmware
* Refer to https://www.asus.com/event/Server/OS_support_list/
OS.html for the latest supported OS list
Management
Solution
Out of Band
Remote
Hardware
Onboard ASMB11-iKVM
Software
ASUS Control Center
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