Installation and Service Manual
Table Of Contents
- Dell EMC PowerEdge T550 Installation and Service Manual
- Contents
- About this document
- PowerEdge T550 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 feet
- Optional caster wheels
- System cover
- Air shroud
- Cooling fans
- Cooling fan cage
- Fan board tray
- Front PERC module
- Drives
- Removing a drive blank
- Installing a drive blank
- Removing a drive carrier
- Installing a drive carrier
- Removing the drive from the drive carrier
- Installing a drive into the drive carrier
- Removing a 3.5-inch drive adapter from a 3.5-inch drive carrier
- Installing a 3.5-inch drive adapter into the 3.5-inch drive carrier
- Removing a 2.5-inch drive from a 3.5-inch drive adapter
- Installing a 2.5-inch drive into a 3.5-inch drive adapter
- Drive backplane
- Drive bays
- Cable routing
- Optional optical drive
- Optional tape backup unit
- Front IO module
- System memory
- Optional BOSS S2 module
- Optional internal USB card
- Internal USB memory key
- Optional IDSDM module
- MicroSD card
- Expansion cards
- GPU card holder
- Optional GPU card
- GPU riser
- Processor and heat sink module
- Optional OCP card
- Optional serial COM port
- System battery
- Intrusion switch module
- Power supply unit
- Power interposer board
- System board
- Trusted Platform Module
- Jumpers and connectors
- System diagnostics and indicator codes
- Getting help
- Documentation resources
Documentation resources
This section provides information about the documentation resources for your system.
To view the document that is listed in the documentation resources table:
● From the Dell EMC support site:
1. Click the documentation link that is provided in the Location column in the table.
2. Click the required product or product version.
NOTE: To locate the model number, see the front of your system.
3. On the Product Support page, click Documentation.
● Using search engines:
○ Type the name and version of the document in the search box.
Table 58. Additional documentation resources for your system
Task Document Location
Setting up your system
For information about setting up your system,
see the Getting Started Guide
document that is shipped with your system.
www.dell.com/poweredgemanuals
Configuring your system For information about the iDRAC features,
configuring and logging in to iDRAC, and
managing your system remotely, see the
Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller
User's Guide.
For information about understanding Remote
Access Controller Admin (RACADM)
subcommands and supported RACADM
interfaces, see the RACADM CLI Guide for
iDRAC.
For information about Redfish and its protocol,
supported schema, and Redfish
Eventing implemented in iDRAC, see the
Redfish API Guide.
For information about iDRAC property
database group and object descriptions, see
the Attribute Registry Guide.
For information about Intel QuickAssist
Technology, see the Integrated Dell Remote
Access Controller User's Guide.
www.dell.com/poweredgemanuals
For information about earlier versions of the
iDRAC documents.
To identify the version of iDRAC available on
your system, on the iDRAC web interface,
click ? > About.
www.dell.com/idracmanuals
For information about installing the
operating system, see the operating system
documentation.
www.dell.com/operatingsystemmanuals
For information about updating drivers and
firmware, see the Methods to download
firmware and drivers section in this document.
www.dell.com/support/drivers
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