Quick Specs
Tower server | 5U (Rackable)
Processor | Max: 36 Cores2x Gen 3 Intel Xeon Scalable Processors
Memory | Max: 2TB16 DDR4 RDIMM 3200Mhz
Storage | Max: 360TB8x 2.5" SAS/SATA (HDD/SSD) Max: 120TB
16x 2.5" SAS/SATA (HDD/SSD) Max: 240TB
24x 2.5" SAS/SATA (HDD/SSD) Max: 360TB
8x 3.5" SAS/SATA (HDD/SSD) Max: 120TB
8x 3.5" SAS/SATA (HDD/SSD) 8x 2.5" NVMe (SSD) Max: 240TB
Boot Optimized Server Storage (BOSS-S2)
IDSDM
Internal USB
S150 (SW RAID)
PERC H345, H355, H745, H755, H755N, HBA355i, HBA355e (non-RAID), H840
1 x OCP 3.0
2 x 1GbE LOM
iDRAC9 with Lifecycle Controller
PCIe Slots:Up to 6 x PCIe Gen4 slots
GPU:2x DW 300W NVIDIA A40, or 5x SW 70W NVIDIA T4
Ideal for:
- Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- Data Analytics
- High-Performance Computing (HPC)
- Machine Learning (ML)
- Virtualization
Flexible two-socket tower server for enterprise workloads outside of the traditional data center
The Dell EMC PowerEdge T550 balances expandability and performance and offers advanced technologies such as accelerators to address enterprise-class workloads.
Drive Configurations:
- 8 x 3.5" SAS/SATA HHD / SSD
- 8 x 3.5" SAS/SATA HHD / SSD 8 NVMe Drives
- 8 x 2.5" SAS/SATA SSD
- 16 x 2.5" SAS/SATA SSD
- 24 x 2.5" SAS/SATA SSD
- NOTE - All models come as the "BASE" Configuration. Please look at the CTO's "UPSELL" Section for the UPSELL Front I/O and the DW GPU PCI-e Slots.
Innovate at scale with an expandable tower server for enterprise workloads
The Dell EMC PowerEdge T550 Server, powered by the 3rd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors, is an enterprise-class tower server that offers advanced technologies and support for accelerators. The PowerEdge T550 provides office-friendly acoustics, ease of management and expandability for growth and performance. Powerful and versatile, the PowerEdge T550 addresses business-critical workloads, cloud infrastructure, and database management as well as enterprise-level requirements for data analysis, virtualization, and AI/ML/inferencing.
Increase efficiency and accelerate operations with autonomous collaboration
The Dell EMC OpenManage systems management portfolio tames the complexity of managing and securing IT infrastructure. Using Dell Technologies’ intuitive end-to-end tools, IT can deliver a secure, integrated experience by reducing process and information silos in order to focus on growing the business. The Dell EMC OpenManage portfolio is the key to your innovation engine, unlocking the tools and automation that help you scale, manage, and protect your technology environment.
- Built-in telemetry streaming, thermal management, and RESTful API with Redfish offer streamlined visibility and control for better server management
- Intelligent automation lets you enable cooperation between human actions and system capabilities for added productivity
- Integrated change management capabilities for update planning and seamless, zero-touch configuration and implementation
- Full-stack management integration with Microsoft, VMware, ServiceNow, Ansible and many other tools
Protect your data assets and infrastructure with proactive resilience
The Dell EMC Power Edge T550 Tower server is designed with a cyber-resilient architecture, integrating security deeply into every phase in the lifecycle, from design to retirement.
- Operate your workloads on a secure platform anchored by cryptographically trusted booting and silicon root of trust
- Maintain server firmware safety with digitally signed firmware packages
- Prevent unauthorized configuration or firmware change with system lockdown
- Securely and quickly wipe all data from storage media, including hard drives, SSDs and system memory with System Erase
Expandable tower server for enterprise workloads outside the data center
The PowerEdge T550, powered by 3rd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors, is designed to address data-intensive workloads.
- New chassis design offers higher performance technologies in a quieter, more management-friendly enclosure
- Ideal for traditional corporate IT, virtualization, databases and analytics, and AI/ML and inferencing
- Enterprise-class tower chassis that provides ease of management and expandability for growth and performance
The Dell PowerEdge T550 has a fan cage that holds 8 Hot-Swap Standard fans. When GPU is selected, the standard fans will be replaced and the High-Performance (HPR) fan will be required. Along with upgraded fans, any GPU>75W must require fan redundancy (Fan quantity = 6 or 8).
There is no special GPU shroud like in some servers. There are also no external or extra fans besides those 8 in the fan cage. The only other cooling requirement is with the OCP shroud. No matter if the OCP is installed or not, the OCP shroud must be installed.
DIMM blanks are required for CPU TDP>185 W, but are not required for CPU TDP<=185 W.
| DIMM Type | DIMM Rank | DIMM Capacity | DIMM Rated Voltage and Supported Speed | Speed | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Single Processor | Dual Processor | Single Processor | Dual Processor | |||
| RDIMM | Single rank | 8 GB | 16 GB | DDR4 (1.2 V), 3200 | 3200 | 2933 |
| 16 GB | 32 GB | DDR4 (1.2 V), 3200 | 3200 | 2933 | ||
| Dual rank | 16 GB | 32 GB | DDR4 (1.2 V), 3200 | 3200 | 2933 | |
| 32 GB | 64 GB | DDR4 (1.2 V), 3200 | 3200 | 2933 | ||
| Configuration Type | Riser Configuration | Processors | x16 Processor 1 Slot 1 (FHFL) | x16 Processor 2 Slot 2 (FHFL) | x16 Processor 2 Slot 3 (FHFL) | x16 Processor 2 Slot 4 (FHHL) | X4 PCH Slot 5 (FHHL) | x16 Processor 1 Slot 6 (FHHL) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| C0 | N/A | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| C0-1 | N/A | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| C1 | 1 x GPU riser | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| C1-1 | 1 x GPU riser | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| C2 | 2 x GPU riser | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
PowerEdge offers a wide variety of options to get information moving to and from our servers. Industry best technologies are chosen, and systems management features are added by our partners to firmware to tie in with iDRAC. These adapters are rigorously validated for worry-free, fully supported use in Dell servers.
OCP shroud are required for all drive configurations, even if the OCP card is not installed.
| Feature | OCP 3.0 |
|---|---|
| Form factor | SFF |
| PCIe Gen | Gen4 |
| Max PCIe width | x16 |
| Max no.of ports | 4 |
| Port type | BT/SFP/SFP /SFP28/SFP56 |
| Max port speed | 100 GbE |
| NC-SI | Yes |
| SNAPI | Yes |
| WoL | Yes |
| Power consumption | 15 W - 150 W |
The Dell EMC PowerEdge RAID Controller (PERC) family of enterprise-class controllers is designed for enhanced performance, increased reliability, and fault tolerance. PERC controller also simplifies management - providing a powerful, easy-to-manage way to create a robust infrastructure and help maximize system uptime.
The software RAID S150 is supported on either SATA drives with chipset SATA only backplane or NVMe drives in universal slots with processor direct PCIe cable connected backplane.
The Dell PowerEdge T550 also supports the use of fPERCs or Adapter PERCs in one of the many PCIe slots.
| Performance level | Description |
|---|---|
| Entry | S150 (SATA) SW RAID SATA |
| Value | H355, H345, HBA355i, HBA355e |
| Value Performance | H755, H755N |
| Premium performance | H840 |
The Dell PowerEdge T550 supports up to 2 DW or 4 SW GPUs. The GPUs need a few things to work well in this system. Below is a list of requirements for GPUs to be installed.
- GPU's need the GPU Card Holder Installed.
- GPU blank is required at GPU riser slot 2, when a GPU>75 W is installed at GPU riser slot 1.
- When GPU is selected, HPR fan must be required.
- GPU>75W must require fan redundancy (Fan quantity = 6 or 8).
- GPU>75 W does not support TBU.
- 600 W Platinum 100–240 VAC/ 240 VDC
- 700 W Titanium 200–240 VAC/240 VDC
- 800 W Platinum 100–240 VAC/ 240 VDC
- 1100 W Titanium 100–240 VAC/ 240 VDC
- 1100 W DC/-(48 - 60) V
- 1400 W Platinum 100–240 VAC/ 240 VDC
- 1800 W Titanium 200–240 VAC/240 VDC
- 2400 W Titanium 200–240 VAC/240 VDC
- Length: 63.5mm (26.12") – without bezel
--- 680.5mm (26.79") – with bezel - Width: 200.0 mm (7.87 inches)
- Height: 459.0 mm (18.07 inches)
- Weight:
- 8x 3.5" 8x 2.5" NVMe 44.48 kg (98.06 pound)
- 24x 2.5" SAS/SATA 44.1 kg (97.22 pound)
