TS500-E5Configuration Guide

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Key features

System overview

Front panel features

Rear panel features

System specifications

Upgrading CPU and CPU heatsink

Upgrading system memory

Upgrading hard disk drives

Upgrading hard disk drive cage

Installing ASUS PIKE 1064E module

Installing ASUS PIKE 1078 module

Installing ASUS Server Management Board

Upgrading graphics card

Upgrading power supply unit

Rackmount rail kit

OS support list

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System package contents

Eight Hot-Swap HDD Devices

Internal features

LED information

Rear panel LEDs

Chassis cover

Reinstalling the side cover

Central Processing Unit (CPU)

Installing the CPU heatsink and fan

System memory

Memory mirroring and sparing technology

Installing a DIMM

Front panel assembly

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Installing a 3.5-inch drive

SATA/SAS hard disk drives

removing and reinstalling the backplane

Expansion cards

Installing ASUS PIKE RAID card

Configuring an expansion card

Cable connections

SATA/SAS backplane connections

back side

Removable components

Chassis footpads

Power supply unit

Preparing the system for rack mounting

Attaching the rails to the rack

Mounting the server to the rack

Motherboard layout

motherboard layout

Jumpers

vga controller setting (3-pin vga_sw)

cpu fan control setting (3-pin cpufan_sel)

internal connectors

sas connectors [red] (7-pin sas1-4), [blue] (7-pin sas)

usb connectors (10-1 pin usb34, usb)

auxiliary panel connector [black] (20-pin aux_panel)

Managing and updating your BIOS

AFUDOS utility

ASUS CrashFree BIOS 3 utility

BIOS setup program

BIOS menu screen

Menu items

Main menu

SATA1–6; PATA Master/Slave

IDE Configuration

System Information

Advanced menu

CPU Configuration

Chipset

Onboard Device Configuration

PCIPnP

Server menu

Power menu

hardware monitor

Boot menu

Boot Settings Configuration

Security

change user password

Exit menu

Setting up RAID

Installing hard disk drives

LSI Software RAID Configuration Utility

Creating a RAID 0 or RAID 1 set

management menu

Creating a RAID 10 set

Adding or viewing a RAID configuration

Initializing the logical drives

Rebuilding failed drives

Checking the drives for data consistency

Deleting a RAID configuration

Selecting the boot drive from a RAID set

Enabling the WriteCache

Intel ® Matrix Storage Manager Option ROM Utility

Creating a RAID 0 set (Stripe)

Creating a RAID 1 set (Mirror)

Creating a RAID 10 set (Stripe + Mirror)

Creating a RAID 5 set (Parity)

Deleting a RAID set

Resetting disks to Non-RAID

Creating a RAID driver disk

Installing the RAID controller driver

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Running the support CD

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