Cisco UCS B200 M6 vs Lenovo ThinkSystem SN550 V2
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Cisco UCS B200 M6 is a half-width 2-socket blade server designed for the Cisco UCS 5108 Blade Server Chassis. The Lenovo ThinkSystem SN550 V2 is an updated 2-socket half-wide compute node for the Flex System Enterprise Chassis.
| Cisco UCS B200 M6 | Lenovo ThinkSystem SN550 V2 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Cisco | Lenovo |
| Status | current | current |
| Released | Apr 2021 | Apr 2021 |
| Form factor | blade | blade |
| Processor | Up to 2x 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors up to 40 cores each (up to 270W TDP) | Up to 2x 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors up to 36 cores each (up to 205W TDP) |
| Memory | 32x DDR4 DIMM slots supporting up to 8TB (including Intel Optane Persistent Memory 200 Series) | 16x DDR4 DIMM slots (8 per CPU) supporting up to 2TB DDR4-3200 ECC RDIMM/Optane PMem 200 |
| Drive bays | Up to 2x front-accessible hot-swap NVMe/SAS/SATA SSDs plus dual internal M.2 SSDs | Up to 2x 2.5-inch hot-swap SATA/SAS/NVMe U.3 drive bays plus dual M.2 boot mirrors |
| Mezzanine slots | 1x front mezzanine slot and 1x rear mezzanine slot for Cisco VIC adapters | — |
| Network | Cisco UCS Virtual Interface Card (VIC) 1440 / 14400 providing up to 80Gbps unified fabric bandwidth | Mezzanine cards supporting 25GbE Ethernet and 32Gb Fibre Channel SAN switching |
| Chassis compatibility | Cisco UCS 5108 Blade Server Chassis managed via Cisco UCS Manager or Intersight | — |
| Management | Cisco Intersight and Cisco UCS Manager | Lenovo XClarity Controller (XCC) |
| Expansion slots | — | 2x PCIe 4.0 x16 I/O expansion mezzanine connectors for chassis fabric switching |
| Power supply | — | Shared redundant power from the Flex System Enterprise Chassis |
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