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
Table 7. Rear view of the system
Item Ports, panels, or slots Icon Description
1 Power supply unit (PSU 1) N/A This is the primary PSU of the system. For more information about
the PSU configurations, see www.dell.com/poweredgemanuals.
2
Power supply unit (PSU
2)
N/A This PSU provides redundancy to the system. For more
information about the PSU configurations, see www.dell.com/
poweredgemanuals.
3
PCIe expansion card slots
(4)
N/A Enables you to connect PCI Express expansion cards.
4
System identification
button
Press the system ID button:
● To locate a particular system within a rack.
● To turn the system ID on or off.
To reset iDRAC, press and hold the button for 16 seconds.
NOTE:
● To reset iDRAC using system ID, ensure that the system ID
button is enabled in the iDRAC setup.
● If the system stops responding during POST, press and hold
the system ID button (for more than five seconds) to enter
the BIOS progress mode.
5
VGA port Enables you to connect a display device to the system.
6 OCP NIC port (optional) N/A This port supports OCP 3.0. The NIC ports are integrated on the
OCP card which is connected to the system board
7 USB ports (2) These ports are USB Type A complaint.
8 iDRAC dedicated port This RJ-45 port enables you to remotely access iDRAC. For
more information, see the iDRAC User's Guide at www.dell.com/
poweredgemanuals.
9 NIC ports (2)
The NIC ports that are integrated on the system board provide
network connectivity. These NIC ports can also be shared with
iDRAC when iDRAC network settings is set to shared mode.
10 NIC ports (1)
The NIC ports that are integrated on the system board provide
network connectivity. These NIC ports can also be shared with
iDRAC when iDRAC network settings is set to shared mode.
NOTE: For more information, see the Dell EMC PowerEdge T550 Technical Specifications on the product documentation
page.
20 PowerEdge T550 system overview