PowerEdge: Rack and Tower Servers Hardware and Software Portfolio Documentation and Videos

• Rack—Maximizes performance across the widest range of applications and are optimized to power your systems to work together and independently.
• Tower—Provides optimized performance, versatility, and quiet operation for small, large, and remote offices.
• Modular—Enables you to customize, deploy, and manage your infrastructure while lowering operating costs. For a brief comparison of the available servers, see the PowerEdge Rack Servers Quick Reference Guide. 
• Supported workloads—IT infrastructure, business application, database management, desktop virtualization, software defined storage.

PowerEdge XE servers are designed to support complex and compute-intensive workloads at the network edge. Rugged PowerEdge XR servers are built to withstand extreme heat, dust, shock and vibration from factory floors, construction sites, retails, mobile command centers, and other locations outside of the data center. PowerEdge cloud-scale servers are designed to give you the ability to scale quickly with configurations built for your workloads. Workloads supported by specialized servers are big data, data analytics, acceleration, data center virtualization, in-database memory apps, AI, ML, and DL. For more information, see Specialty servers.

See the following Portfolio videos:

 

 

• Introduction to PowerEdge servers
• Rack Server Portfolio
• Explore Tower Servers
• Compare Tower Servers
• Choose the right server based on your workloads
• PowerEdge servers Accelerator Combinations
• Rack and Tower Servers
• How to identify a Dell PowerEdge server generation
• List of Dell PowerEdge servers—12th to 17th generation

Dell PowerEdge servers are designed to support Artificial Intelligence (AI) workloads by providing a range of features and technologies that enable high-performance computing, scalability, and reliability.

Telemetry enables you to collect and stream real-time device metrics, events, and data logs from a PowerEdge server to a subscribed external client or server application. For more information, select the server model and see the iDRAC User's Guide, on the product documentation page.

Also, go to the following pages:

• Transform data center analytics with iDRAC9 telemetry streaming
• Telemetry Streaming with iDRAC9 - Power and Thermal Metrics

For PowerEdge server, it is mandatory to recover from corrupted or damaged BIOS image which can result from malicious data modifications, power surges, or other unforeseeable events. To return the PowerEdge server from an unbootable State to a functional state, you must have a reserve source for the BIOS image. This alternative/recovery BIOS is stored in a second serial peripheral interface (SPI). For more information, see the BIOS Recovery and Hardware Root of Trust (RoT) chapter in the iDRAC9 Security Configuration Guide and iDRAC10 Security Configuration Guide.

14th generation and later PowerEdge servers (both Intel or AMD-based) now use an immutable, silicon-based Root-of Trust to cryptographically attest to the integrity of BIOS and iDRAC firmware. This Root-of-trust is based on one-time programmable, read-only public keys that provide protection against malware tampering. For more information, see the Silicon-based Root-of-Trust chapter in the iDRAC9 Security Configuration Guide and iDRAC10 Security Configuration Guide.

Proactive resilience enables security functions like end-to-end boot verification including UEFI Secure Boot Customization, trusted BIOS, firmware chain of trust, and verified OS bootloader. Firmware is protected using NIST guidelines including signed firmware updates and certificate management is simplified through automatic renewal.

PowerEdge Rack and Tower servers also provide data-at-rest protection using Secure Enterprise Key Manager (SEKM) and data-in-use protection with Confidential Compute CPU technologies. Secure Component Verification (SCV): Cryptographic verification of components extends supply chain security to the customer’s site with Dell Technologies Secured Component Verification. For more information, see the Supply Chain Security Requires Robust Component Integrity white paper. For more information, see the following:

• Cyber Resilient Security in Dell EMC PowerEdge Servers
• Improved iDRAC Security using TLS 1.3 with FIPS on Dell EMC PowerEdge Servers
• Enable OpenManage Secure Enterprise Key Manager (SEKM) on Dell EMC PowerEdge Servers
• Improved security with iDRAC9 using Root of Trust and BIOS Live Scanning
• Using iDRAC9 RSA SecurID 2FA
• Data Security by using the System Erase feature of iDRAC9 on PowerEdge servers

The latest generation of PowerEdge servers supports the Quick Sync 2 module that enables higher bandwidth Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), and Wi-Fi connections. For more information, see the following:

• Understanding OpenManage Mobile and Quick Sync Security for PowerEdge 14th Gen Servers and MX Chassis
• Understanding Quick Sync 2 for Dell EMC PowerEdge Servers and MX7000 Chassis

Dell Technologies Boot Optimized Storage Solution (BOSS) is a RAID solution card that is designed for booting a server's operating system. For more information, see the BOSS-N1, BOSS-S1, and BOSS-N1 DC-MHS documentation.

By using standards-based APIs and robust scripting, you can efficiently manage thousands of servers and increase productivity. For more information, see Accelerating IT Transformation Through Intelligent Automation in Server Infrastructure.

Dell PowerEdge RAID Controller (PERC) is a family of RAID controllers designed for Dell PowerEdge servers. PERC controllers are used to manage and configure storage arrays, providing data protection, performance, and reliability for critical business applications For more information, see the PERC product documentation. For more information, see  PowerEdge Tutorials: Physical Disks and RAID Controller (PERC) on Servers

ROR-N1 controller card offers expandable storage capacity to improve the performance of your server systems. For more information, see the ROR-N1 product documentation.

Enhances visibility into server power consumption and control utilization through the console’s integration with iDRAC embedded in Dell EMC PowerEdge servers. For more information, see the OpenManage Enterprise Power Manager (OME PMP) documentation.

PowerEdge Rack and Tower servers provide superior cooling to address the cooling requirements of dense data centers. Available features are Dell Multi-Vector Cooling 2.0, Dell Direct Liquid Cooling (DLC), and Dell Leak Sense. For more information, see the following:

• Dell Smart Cooling Technologies
• PowerEdge Multi-Vector Cooling 2.0 next generation PowerEdge servers

Enable you to resolve complexity in your IT infrastructure with intuitive tools that deliver automated, repeatable processes, based on your unique policies, and enable simple, effective management. PowerEdge Systems Management tools support HTML5 Web UI, Redfish, WS-Man, IPMI 2.0, DCMI 1.5, RACADM, SMASH-CLP, Telnet, SSH, and Serial Redirection. For more information, see the following videos and articles:

• Dell EMC iDRAC9 v4.0 UI Enhancement
• OPENMANAGE SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT SOLUTIONS
• Open Manage Systems Management Solution Portfolio
• OPENMANAGE SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT SOLUTIONS

The latest generation of PowerEdge servers enables you to reduce PowerEdge Energy Intensity (EI) by 83%. OME Power Manager also makes it easier for you to manage your power budgets with data-driven insights. Reduce power consumption during off-peak hours with policy automation to place power caps on racks, rows, or rooms of servers. For more information, see the following:

• Maximize Power Visibility and Control for PowerEdge Servers
• Power Efficiency "How To" for the Dell PowerEdge Server Portfolio
• Energy consumption is always under control

PowerEdge Rack and Tower servers are designed to address the most challenging workloads across all your IT environments. Some of the workloads supported by PowerEdge servers are listed here. For more information, see Explore PowerEdge Supported Workloads.