Owners Manual
Table Of Contents
- Dell EMC PowerEdge R7525 Installation and Service Manual
- Contents
- About this document
- System overview
- Initial system setup and configuration
- Installing and removing system components
- Safety instructions
- Before working inside your system
- After working inside your system
- Recommended tools
- Cable routing
- RIO card
- Optional front bezel
- System cover
- Drive backplane cover
- Control panel
- Air shroud
- Cooling fan
- Side wall brackets
- Drives
- Drive backplane
- Rear drive cage
- Front PERC module
- System memory
- Processor and heat sink
- Expansion cards and expansion card risers
- Expansion card installation guidelines
- Removing the expansion card risers
- Installing the expansion card risers
- Removing expansion card from the expansion card riser
- Installing an expansion card into the expansion card riser
- Removing the full length expansion card risers
- Installing the full length expansion card risers
- Removing a GPU
- Installing a GPU
- Optional serial COM port
- Optional IDSDM module
- MicroSD card
- M.2 SSD module
- BOSS S2 card (optional)
- System battery
- Optional internal USB card
- Intrusion switch module
- Optional OCP card
- Power supply unit
- Trusted Platform Module
- System board
- LOM card and rear I/O board
- Upgrade Kits
- Jumpers and connectors
- System diagnostics and indicator codes
- Getting help
- Documentation resources
System overview
The PowerEdge R7525 system is a dual socket, 2U rack server that supports:
● AMD EPYC
TM
7002 and 7003 series processors
● 32 DIMM slots
● Two redundant AC or DC power supply units
● Up to 12 x 3.5-inch, 8 x 3.5-inch, or 24 x 2.5-inch, 16 x 2.5-inch, 8 x 2.5-inch, or 2 x 2.5-inch (rear), SAS, SATA, or NVMe
drives.
NOTE: For more information about how to hot swap NVMe PCIe SSD U.2 device, see the Dell Express Flash NVMe PCIe
SSD User's Guide at https://www.dell.com/support Browse all Products > Data Center Infrastructure > Storage
Adapters & Controllers > Dell PowerEdge Express Flash NVMe PCIe SSD > Documentation > Manuals and
Documents.
NOTE: All instances of SAS, SATA drives, PCIe SSDs, and NVMe are seen as drives in this document, unless specified
otherwise.
WARNING: Consumer-Grade GPU should not be installed or used in the Enterprise Server products.
For more information about supported drives, see the www.dell.com/poweredgemanuals section.
For more information, see the Dell EMC PowerEdge R7525 Technical Specifications on the product documentation page.
Topics:
• Front view of the system
• Rear view of the system
• Inside the system
• Locating the Express Service Code and Service Tag
• System information label
• Rail sizing and rack compatibility matrix
Front view of the system
Figure 1. Front view of the 24 x 2.5-inch drive system
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8 System overview