Dell EMC PowerEdge R250
4-bay entry-level 1U rack server

Overview:

The Dell EMC PowerEdge R250 affordably addresses common business workloads while delivering compute with an entry-level 1U rack server.

Your Innovation Engine for businesses of all sizes

The Dell EMC PowerEdge R250, powered by Intel Xeon E-2300 processors, delivers powerful compute for common business applications and streamlines productivity. It supports 3200 MT/s DDR4 speeds and 32 GB DIMMs, up to 128 GB for memory intensive workloads. In addition, to address substantial throughput improvements, the PowerEdge R250 supports PCIe Gen 4 and offers enhanced thermal efficiency to support increasing power and thermal requirements. This makes the PowerEdge R250 an rack ideal server for buisness critical workloads, cloud infrastructure, and point of sale transactions in a 1U form factor, for small to midsized businesses, inside and outside of the data center.

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 PowerEdge R250 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

Features:

Your Innovation Engine for businesses of all sizes

The PowerEdge R250, powered by the Intel Xeon E-2300 processor, delivers powerful compute for common business applications and streamlines productivity.

Maximize performance and adapt to meet future growing demands.

The PowerEdge R250, powered by the Intel® Xeon® E-2300 processors, is an entry level rack server with an ideal balance of adaptability and affordability designed to address your evolving compute demands.

• Supports up to 32GB DIMMS at 3200 MT/s DIMM speed, up to 128GB
• Address substantial throughput improvements with PCIe Gen 4 support
• Ideal for file/print, mail/messaging, point of sale, web hosting and collaboration
• Offers enhanced thermal efficiency
• Provides improved security and faster boot time with UEFI Secure Boot

Systems Management and Security Solutions

Technical Specifications:

Dell EMC PowerEdge R250 Specifications
Processors	One Intel Xeon E-2300 series processor with up to 8 cores
Memory	Four DDR4 DIMM slots, supports UDIMM 128 GB max, speeds up to 3200 MT/s Supports unregistered ECC DDR4 DIMMs only Note: For Pentium processor, the maximum memory speed is 2666 MT/s.
Storage controllers	Internal controllers: PERC H345, H355, H755, HBA355i, S150 Internal Boot: Internal Dual SD Module or USB or Boot Optimized Storage Subsystem (BOSS-S1): HWRAID 2 x M.2 SSDs External HBAs (non-RAID): HBA355e
Drive bays	Front bays: Up to 4 x 3.5-inch hot swap SAS/SATA (HDD/SSD) max 30.72 TB Up to 2 x 3.5-inch cabled SAS/SATA (HDD/SSD) max 15.36 TB Up to 4 x 3.5-inch cabled SAS/SATA (HDD/SSD) max 30.72 TB
Power supplies	450W Bronze 100-240 VAC, cabled 450W Platinum 100-240 VAC, cabled
Cooling options	Air cooling
Fans	Up to four cabled fans
Dimension	Height: 42.8 mm (1.68 inches) Width: 482 mm (18.97 inches) Depth: 598.64 mm (23.56 inches) with bezel and 585 mm (23.03 inches) without beze
Form Factor	1U rack server
Embedded management	iDRAC9 iDRAC Direct iDRAC RESTful API with Redfish iDRAC Service Module
Bezel	Optional bezel or security bezel
OpenManage Software	OpenManage Enterprise OpenManage Power Manager plugin OpenManage SupportAssist plugin OpenManage Update Manager plugin
Mobility	OpenManage Mobile
Integrations and Connections	OpenManage Integrations BMC Truesight Microsoft System Center Red Hat Ansible Modules VMware vCenter and vRealize Operations Manager OpenManage Connections IBM Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus IBM Tivoli Network Manager IP Edition Micro Focus Operations Manager Nagios Core Nagios XI
Security	Cryptographically signed firmware Secure Boot Secure Erase Silicon Root of Trust System Lockdown (requires iDRAC9 Enterprise or Datacenter) TPM 1.2/2.0 FIPS, CC-TCG certified, TPM 2.0 China NationZ
Embedded NIC	Onboard LOM 1GbE x2
GPU options	Not supported
Ports	Front Ports 1 x USB 2.0 1 x iDRAC Direct (Micro-AB USB) port Internal Ports 1 x USB 3.0 (optional) Rear Ports 1 x USB 2.0 1 x iDRAC ethernet port 1 x USB 3.0 1 x VGA 1 x Serial port
PCIe	2 PCIe slots: 1 x8 Gen4 (x16 connector) low profile, half length 1 x8 Gen4 (x8 connector) low profile, half length
Operating System and Hypervisors	Canonical Ubuntu Server LTS Citrix Hypervisor Microsoft Windows Server with Hyper-V Red Hat Enterprise Linux SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
OEM-ready version availabe	From bezel to BIOS to packaging, your servers can look and feel as if they were designed and built by you.

Support & Services:

Dell Technologies offers complete end-to-end services

Optimizing the IT lifecycle is vital. We have expert services for all lifecycle phases that save you time and resources, reduce effort, and improve your IT experience.

Documentation:

Dell EMC PowerEdge R250 Datasheet (.PDF)