Cisco UCS B200 M5 vs Dell PowerEdge MX750c
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 Dell PowerEdge MX750c is a modular dual-socket compute sled designed for the 7U PowerEdge MX7000 kinetic infrastructure enclosure, powered by 3rd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable (Ice Lake) processors.
| Cisco UCS B200 M5 | Dell PowerEdge MX750c | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Cisco | Dell |
| Status | end-of-sale | current |
| Released | Jul 2017 | May 2021 |
| 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 2.5-inch SAS/SATA/NVMe SSDs |
| 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 | — | Intel Xeon Scalable 3rd Gen (Ice Lake, up to 2 processors, 270W TDP) |
| Memory slots | — | 32 |
| Memory type | — | DDR4-3200 RDIMM / LRDIMM |
| Memory max (GB) | — | 4,096 |
| Pcie slots | — | 2 PCIe Gen4 mezzanine fabric slots |
| Gpu support | — | None supported |
| Network onboard | — | Dual mezzanine cards connected to MX7000 fabric A/B; iDRAC9 dedicated management |
| Power supply | — | Shared redundant power from PowerEdge MX7000 7U chassis |
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