High performance, extensive expandability, & superior reliability Exclusive ASUS PIKE To meet growing demands for mass storage in business environments, the TS700-E7/RS8 provides eight hot-swap hard drive modules for large storage capacities & easy upgrades. In addition, it supports optional ASUS PIKE upgrade kits with only a PIKE riser card & a PIKE card: simply connecting the onboard SATA cable to the PIKE riser card′s SAS port upgrades server SATA storage to SAS storage. Tool-less design The accessible & friendly server layout allows users to replace the rear fans, 5.25" optical drives, system fans, & hard drive cages with great ease & no tools, saving significant time & effort. Dual use server & workstation With a PCI Express x 16 expansion slot to support a graphics card, the TS700-E7/RS8 is capable of high speed graphics computing. ASUS MIO cards further provide lifelike audio for workstation users. Rack-mount & pedestal positioning Besides working as a pedestal server, the TS700-E7/RS8 is also rack-mountable with the optional rack-mount kit, saving space & consolidating with the many systems required by growing businesses. Quad LAN with high speed Gigabit performance Four LAN teaming ports provide high networking bandwidth with precision load balancing & fault tolerance functions, which reducing data processing bottlenecks in virtualization environments by enhancing virtualized traffic management. Comprehensive server management with ASMB6 & ASWM Optional ASMB6 enables dashboard system health monitoring, remote power on/off control, virtual media over LAN, automatic video recording, & network bonding support. In addition, the ASMB6 function is based on BIOS-level access, so even if the server operating system is down, the KVM module is still able to provide round-the-clock remote monitoring & diagnosis through a user-friendly GUI (web-based graphical user interface). Meanwhile, ASWM Enterprise software provides one-to-multiple centralized management, including BIOS flash, remote control, power control, & asset management through a user-friendly interface. Users gain an easy & convenient way of achieving remote server control. Integrated remote server management With the web GUI ASMB6-i KVM module, users can fully control the server with out-of-band server-based management using the IPMI 2.0 standard, accessing 24/7 real-time remote monitoring. ASWM Enterprise software works in this situation as well, offering the same user-friendly features listed above.