Cisco UCS B200 M5 vs Lenovo ThinkSystem SN550
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 Lenovo ThinkSystem SN550 is a half-wide 2-socket blade server engineered for the Flex System Enterprise Chassis.
| Cisco UCS B200 M5 | Lenovo ThinkSystem SN550 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Cisco | Lenovo |
| Status | end-of-sale | end-of-sale |
| Released | Jul 2017 | Jul 2017 |
| 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) | 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) | 24x DDR4 DIMM slots (12 per CPU) supporting up to 3TB DDR4-2933 ECC RDIMM/LRDIMM |
| 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 2x 2.5-inch SAS/SATA/NVMe hot-swap SSDs plus dual internal M.2 boot 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 | Mezzanine I/O cards supporting dual or quad-port 10GbE, 25GbE, or 16Gb/32Gb Fibre Channel |
| Chassis compatibility | Cisco UCS 5108 Blade Server Chassis | — |
| Management | Cisco UCS Manager and Cisco Intersight | Lenovo XClarity Controller (XCC) |
| Expansion slots | — | 2x PCIe 3.0 x16 I/O mezzanine slots connecting to Flex System midplane fabric switches |
| Power supply | — | Shared power and cooling delivered through the Flex System Enterprise Chassis |
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