Technical Guide

Table 1. Product comparison (continued)
Features PowerEdge T550 PowerEdge T640
● TPM 1.2/2.0 FIPS, CC-TCG certified, TPM
2.0 China NationZ
Embedded NIC 2 x 1 GbE LOM 2 x 10 GbE
Networking options OCP x16 Mezz 3.0 -
GPU options Up to two double wide 300 W, or five single
wide 70 W accelerators
Up to four double wide 300 W or eight single wide
150 W accelerators
Ports Front ports
There are two SKUs:
● Base: Status LED
only
○ 1 x USB 2.0
○ 1 x USB 3.0
Upsell: Status LED
only and Quick Sync 2
● 1 x USB 2.0
●
1 x USB 3.0
● 1 x iDRAC Direct
(Micro-AB USB)
port
Rear ports
● 1 x USB 2.0
● 1 x iDRAC ethernet
port
● 1 x USB 3.0
● 2 x Ethernet
● 1 x VGA
Front ports
● 1 x Dedicated iDRAC micro-USB
● 1 x USB 2.0
● 1 x USB 3.0
● 6 x USB 2.0/3.0
Internal Port: 1 x USB 2.0
PCIe 3 x PCIe Gen4 slots (all x16) + 1 x PCIe Gen3
slot (x8) + Upsell: up to 2 PCIe x16 DW for
GPU
8 x PCIe Gen 3 slots (4 x 8)
8 x Gen 3 slots (4 x 16)
Operating System and
Hypervisors
● Canonical Ubuntu Server LTS
● Citrix Hypervisor
● Windows Server with Hyper-V
● Red Hat Enterprise Linux
● SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
● VMware ESXi
For specifications and interoperability details,
see Dell EMC Enterprise Operating Systems
on Servers, Storage, and Networking page at
Dell.com/OSsupport.
● Canonical Ubuntu Server LTS
● Citrix Hypervisor
● Windows Server LTSC with Hyper-V
● Red Hat Enterprise Linux
● SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
● VMware ESXi
For specifications and interoperability details,
see Dell EMC Enterprise Operating Systems on
Servers, Storage, and Networking page at Dell.com/
OSsupport.
8 System features