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Model name ESC N8A-E12
Storage bays
Storage bays
8 x 2.5-inch Front Hot-swap Storage Bays
- PCIe switch direct: 8 x NVMe
2 x 2.5-inch Rear Hot-swap Storage Bays
- CPU1 direct: 2 x NVMe/SATA*/SAS*
* SATA/SAS support requires an optional HBA/RAID card
Midplane
connectors
4 x EXAMAX
Backplane
connectors
1 x MCIO
1 x Mini SAS HD
Default cables
1 x MCIO cable
1 x Mini SAS HD cable
Networking LAN
2 x Dual Port Intel
®
X710-AT2 10GbE LAN controller
1 x Management Port
VGA
Aspeed AST2600 64MB
Graphic
HGX H100 8 GPUs with NVLink NVSwitch
Front I/O
4 x USB 3.2 Gen1 ports
1 x VGA port
2 x RJ-45 LAN ports
1 x RJ-45 management LAN port
Switch/LED
Front: Rear:
1 x Power button/LED 1 x Power button/LED
1 x Location button/LED
1 x Location button/LED
1 x Q-Code/Port 80 LED
2 x LAN LED
Security options
TPM-SPI / PFR (optional)
OS support
Windows Server, RedHat
®
Enterprise Linux, 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