Owners Manual
Table Of Contents
- Dell EMC PowerEdge R550 Installation and Service Manual
- Contents
- About this document
- System overview
- Initial system setup and configuration
- Minimum to POST and system management configuration validation
- Installing and removing system components
- Safety instructions
- Before working inside your system
- After working inside your system
- Recommended tools
- Optional front bezel
- System cover
- Drive backplane cover
- Air shroud
- Cooling fans
- Side wall brackets
- Intrusion switch module
- Optional serial COM port
- Drives
- Drive backplane
- Cable routing
- System memory
- Processor and heat sink module
- Expansion cards and expansion card risers
- Optional IDSDM module
- Optional BOSS S2 card
- Front mounting front PERC module
- Optional OCP card
- System battery
- Optional internal USB key
- MicroSD card
- Power supply unit
- Power interposer board
- Cooling fan cage board
- System board
- Trusted Platform Module
- Control panel
- Optional optical drive
- Jumpers and connectors
- System diagnostics and indicator codes
- Getting help
- Documentation resources
Table 7. Rear view of the system (continued)
Item Ports, panels, or slots Icon Description
can also be shared with iDRAC when iDRAC network settings is set
to shared mode.
NOTE: For more information, see the Dell EMC PowerEdge R550 Technical Specifications on the product documentation
page.
Inside the system
Figure 8. Inside the system
1.
Front PERC 2. Optical disk drive (ODD)
3. Cooling fan 4. Power interposer board
5. Intrusion switch 6. BOSS module tray
7. OCP 8. PSU 1 and PSU 2
9. System board 10. Processor and heat sink module
11. Memory module slots 12. Backplane
13. Information tag
Locating the Express Service Code and Service Tag
The unique Express Service Code and Service Tag are used to identify the system.
The information tag is located on the front of the system that includes system information such as the Service Tag, Express
Service Code, Manufacture date, NIC, MAC address, QRL label, and so on. If you have opted for the secure default access
to iDRAC, the Information tag also contains the iDRAC secure default password. If you have opted for iDRAC Quick Sync
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System overview