Dell PowerEdge T550
Dell's 15th-generation two-socket 5U tower server: 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors (up to 32 cores each), 16 DDR4-3200 DIMMs, up to 24 x 2.5" or 8 x 3.5" drives, 6 PCIe slots and up to two double-wide accelerators, for expandable workloads outside the traditional data center.
Memory
- Slots
- 16 x DDR4 DIMM
- Max
- 1 TB (16 x 64 GB RDIMM)
- Speed
- Up to 3200 MT/s
Storage
- Front bays
- Up to 8 x 2.5" SAS/SATA, max 120 TB; 16 x 2.5", max 240 TB; or 24 x 2.5", max 360 TB
- Front bays (alt)
- Up to 8 x 3.5" SAS/SATA, max 120 TB, or 8 x 3.5" + 8 x 2.5" NVMe, max 240 TB
- Internal controllers
- PERC H345, PERC H755, PERC H755N, HBA355i
- External controllers
- PERC H840, HBA355e
- Software RAID
- S150
- Internal boot
- BOSS-S2 (HWRAID 2 x M.2 SSD, 240 GB or 480 GB), or internal dual SD/USB
Graphics
- Accelerators
- Up to two double-wide 300 W NVIDIA A40, or five single-wide 70 W NVIDIA T4
- Video
- 1 x VGA
Expansion
- PCIe
- 5 x PCIe Gen4 slots + 1 x PCIe Gen3 slot
- Config
- 3 x x16 Gen4 (x16 connector) full height, half length; 1 x x4 Gen3 (x8 connector) full height, half length; 2 x x16 Gen4 (x16 connector) full height, full length (optional)
Networking
- On-board
- 2 x 1 GbE LOM + OCP x16 Mezz 3.0 (optional)
Power
- Supplies
- 600 W / 800 W Platinum, 1100 W Titanium, 1400 W Platinum, or 2400 W Platinum, hot-swap redundant
- Cooling
- Up to 8 fans with full redundancy
Ports
- Front
- 1 x dedicated iDRAC Direct micro-USB (optional), 1 x USB 2.0, 1 x USB 3.0
- Rear
- 1 x USB 2.0, 1 x iDRAC Direct (Micro-AB USB), 1 x USB 3.0, 1 x serial (optional), 2 x Ethernet, 1 x VGA
- Internal
- 1 x USB 3.0 (optional)
Physical
- Height
- 459.00 mm (18.07 in)
- Width
- 200.00 mm (7.87 in)
- Depth
- 680.50 mm (26.79 in) with bezel, 663.50 mm (26.12 in) without bezel
- Weight
- Max 44.48 kg (98.06 lb)
- Form factor
- 5U tower server
- Bezel
- Optional LCD bezel or security bezel
Management
- Embedded
- iDRAC9, iDRAC Service Module, iDRAC Direct, Quick Sync 2 wireless module
- Security
- Cryptographically signed firmware, Secure Boot, Secure Erase, Silicon Root of Trust, System Lockdown (iDRAC9 Enterprise/Datacenter), TPM 1.2/2.0 FIPS, CC-TCG certified
- Consoles
- OpenManage Enterprise, Power Manager, SupportAssist, Update Manager plugins
- Tools
- iDRAC RESTful API with Redfish, IPMI, RACADM CLI, System Update Utility
Operating systems
- Supported
- Canonical Ubuntu Server LTS, Citrix Hypervisor, Microsoft Windows Server with Hyper-V, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, VMware ESXi
Processors
- Intel Xeon Silver 4309Y
- Intel Xeon Silver 4310
- Intel Xeon Silver 4310T
- Intel Xeon Silver 4314
- Intel Xeon Silver 4316
- Intel Xeon Gold 5317
- Intel Xeon Gold 5318S
- Intel Xeon Gold 5318Y
- Intel Xeon Gold 5320
- Intel Xeon Gold 5320T
- Intel Xeon Gold 6312U
- Intel Xeon Gold 6314U
- Intel Xeon Gold 6326
- Intel Xeon Gold 6338
- Intel Xeon Gold 6338T
- Intel Xeon Platinum 8352M