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
Next steps
1. Connect the cables to the front PERC module.
2. Follow the procedure listed in After working inside your system.
Drives
Removing a drive blank
The procedure for removing 2.5 inch and 3.5-inch drive blanks is identical.
Prerequisites
1. Follow the safety guidelines listed in Safety instructions.
2. If installed, remove the front bezel.
CAUTION: To maintain proper system cooling, drive blanks must be installed in all empty drive slots.
CAUTION: Mixing drive blanks from previous generations of PowerEdge servers is not supported.
Steps
Press the release button, and slide the drive blank out of the drive slot.
Figure 46. Removing a drive blank
Next steps
Install a drive or drive blank.
Installing a drive blank
The procedure for installing 2.5 inch and 3.5-inch drive blanks is identical.
Prerequisites
1. Follow the safety guidelines listed in Safety instructions.
2. If installed, remove the front bezel.
CAUTION: Mixing drive blanks from previous generations of PowerEdge servers is not supported.
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