Technical Guide
Table Of Contents
- Dell EMC PowerEdge R550 Technical Guide
- Contents
- System overview
- System features and generational comparison
- Chassis views and features
- Processor
- Memory subsystem
- Storage
- Networking
- Expansion cards and expansion card risers
- Power, thermal, and acoustics
- Rack, rails, and cable management
- Supported Operating Systems
- Dell EMC OpenManage systems management
- Dell Technologies Services
- Dell EMC ProDeploy Enterprise Suite
- Dell EMC Remote Consulting Services
- Dell EMC Data Migration Service
- Dell EMC ProSupport Enterprise Suite
- Dell EMC ProSupport Plus for Enterprise
- Dell EMC ProSupport for Enterprise
- Dell EMC ProSupport One for Data Center
- ProSupport for HPC
- Support Technologies
- Dell Technologies Education Services
- Dell Technologies Consulting Services
- Dell EMC Managed Services
- Appendix A: Additional specifications
- Appendix B. Standards compliance
- Appendix C Additional resources
System overview
The Dell™ PowerEdge™ R550 is Dell’s latest 2-socket, 2U rack server designed to run complex workloads using highly scalable
memory, I/O, and network options. The system features the 3rd Generation Intel
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Xeon Scalable Processor , up to 16 DIMMs,
PCI Express
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(PCIe) 4.0 enabled expansion slots, and a choice of network interface technologies to cover NIC.
The PowerEdge R550 is a general-purpose platform capable of handling demanding workloads and applications, such as data
warehouses, e-commerce, databases, and high-performance computing (HPC).
Topics:
• Key workloads
• New technologies
Key workloads
The target workloads for the PowerEdge R550 include light duty virtualization, small IT infrastructure and small business
specific workloads.
New technologies
Table 1. New technologies
Technology Detailed Description
3rd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processor Core count: up to 24 core processor
UPI speed: up to 3 x UPIs/socket at 10.4 GT/s or 11.2 GT/s
Maximum number of PCIe lanes: Integrated 64 PCIe 4.0 lanes
@ 16 GT/s PCIe Gen4
Maximum TDP: 185 W
2933 MT/s DDR4 Memory Maximum 8 DIMMs per processor
Supports DDR4 ECC RDIMM, with ECC up to 2933 MT/s
Flex IO LOM board, 2 x 1 GB with BCM5720 LAN controller
Rear IO with 1 GB dedicated management network port, USB
3.0 x 1, USB 2.0 x 1, and VGA port
Serial port option
OCP Mezz 3.0 (supported by x16 PCIe lanes)
Dedicated PERC Front storage module PERC with front PERC 10.5 and PERC
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Power Supplies 60 mm dimension is the new PSU form factor on 15G design
Platinum 600 W AC/240 HVDC
Platinum 800 W AC/240 HVDC
1100 W DC/-48 –(-60) V
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