User Manual
Table Of Contents
- Safety information
- Chapter 1: Product Introduction
- Chapter 2: Hardware Information
- Chapter 3: Powering Up
- 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 Smart Settings
- 4.5.4 Super IO Configuration
- 4.5.5 Serial Port Console Redirection
- 4.5.6 Onboard LAN Configuration
- 4.5.7 APM
- 4.5.8 PCI Subsystem Settings
- 4.5.9 USB Configuration
- 4.5.10 CSM Configuration
- 4.5.11 NVMe Configuration
- 4.5.12 Network Stack Configuration
- 4.5.13 iSCSI Configuration
- 4.6 Platform Configuration menu
- 4.7 Socket Configuration menu
- 4.8 Event Logs menu
- 4.9 Server Mgmt menu
- 4.10 Security menu
- 4.11 Boot menu
- 4.12 Tool menu
- 4.13 Save & Exit menu
- Chapter 5: RAID Configuration
- Chapter 6: Intel® Optane™ DC Persistent Memory Configuration
- 6.1 Working with Intel® Optane™ DC persistent memory
- 6.1.1 DCPMM operating systems (OS) and virtual machine monitor (VMM)
- 6.1.2 Setting up Intel® Optane™ DC persistent memory as memory modules
- 6.1.3 Setting up Intel® Optane™ DC persistent memory as storage devices (Windows)
- 6.1.4 Removing Intel® Optane™ DC persistent memory as storage devices (Windows)
- 6.1.5 Setting up Intel® Optane™ DC persistent memory on other operating systems
- 6.1 Working with Intel® Optane™ DC persistent memory
- Chapter 7: Driver Installation
- 7.1 RAID driver installation
- 7.2 Management applications and utilities installation
- 7.3 Running the Support DVD
- 7.4 Intel® chipset device software installation
- 7.5 Installing the Intel® I210 Gigabit Adapters driver
- 7.6 VGA driver installation
- 7.7 Intel® Rapid Storage Technology enterprise 5.0 installation
- Appendix
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Z11PA-D8 Series specications summary
Model Name Z11PA-D8
Processor Support /
System Bus
2 x 165W Socket P (LGA 3647)
1st Gen Intel
®
Xeon
®
Processor Scalable Family
2nd Gen Intel
®
Xeon
®
Processor Scalable Family
Core Logic
Intel
®
Lewisburg PCH (C621)
Form Factor
CEB
ASUS
Features
Fan Speed
Control
Rack Optimized
(Dedicated for
rack)
ASUS Control
Center
Memory
Total Slots
8 (4-channel per CPU, 4 DIMM per CPU)
Voltage
1.2V
Capacity
Maximum up to 4096GB
Memory Type
DDR4 2933* (1 DIMM per Channel)
DDR4 2666/2400/2133 RDIMM/LRDIMM/LRDIMM 3DS
(2 DIMM per Channel)
Intel
®
Optane™ DC persistent memory (DCPMM)
* 2933MHz will drop to 2666MHz when using 2DPC congurations
** Refer to ASUS server AVL for the latest update
Memory Size
4GB, 8GB, 16GB, 32GB (RDIMM)
32GB, 64GB, 128GB (LRDIMM)
64GB, 128GB (3DS)
128GB, 256GB, 512GB (DCPMM)
Expansion
Slots (follow
SSI Location
number)
Total PCI/ PCI-X
/ PCI-E Slots
3
Slot Location 1
PCI-E x8 (x8 Gen3 Link) from CPU2
Slot Location 2
-
Slot Location 3
PCI-E x16 (x16 Gen3 Link) from CPU1
Slot Location 4
-
Slot Location 5
PCI-E x16 (x16 Gen3 Link) from CPU1
Slot Location 6
MIO
Slot Location 7
-
Additional Slot 1
-
Additional Slot 2
-
Networking
LAN
4 x Intel I210AT
1 x Management Port
Graphic
VGA
Aspeed AST2500 64MB
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