Cisco UCS B200 M5 vs Dell PowerEdge MX740c
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Cisco UCS B200 M5 was a high-density 2-socket half-width blade server engineered for the Cisco UCS 5108 chassis. The PowerEdge MX740c is a two-socket modular compute blade for the MX7000 chassis, built with 1st and 2nd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors.
| Cisco UCS B200 M5 | Dell PowerEdge MX740c | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Cisco | Dell |
| Status | end-of-sale | end-of-sale |
| Released | Jul 2017 | Sep 2018 |
| Form factor | blade | blade |
| Processor | Up to 2x 1st or 2nd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors up to 28 cores each (up to 205W TDP) | — |
| Memory | 24x DDR4 DIMM slots supporting up to 3TB (with Intel Optane Persistent Memory support) | — |
| Drive bays | Up to 2x front-accessible 2.5-inch SAS/SATA/NVMe SSDs plus dual internal SD or M.2 boot cards | Up to 6x 2.5in SAS/SATA/NVMe drives |
| Mezzanine slots | Modular LOM (mLOM) slot plus rear mezzanine slot for Cisco VIC 1340/1440 adapters | — |
| Network | Cisco VIC 1340 / 1440 delivering up to 40Gbps or 80Gbps to chassis Fabric Extenders | — |
| Chassis compatibility | Cisco UCS 5108 Blade Server Chassis | — |
| Management | Cisco UCS Manager and Cisco Intersight | — |
| Cpu sockets | — | 2 |
| Cpu platform | — | 1st and 2nd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors |
| Memory slots | — | 24 |
| Memory type | — | DDR4 ECC RDIMM/LRDIMM up to 2933 MT/s |
| Pcie slots | — | 2x PCIe Gen3 mezzanine fabric slots plus dual M.2 boot |
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