Cisco UCS B480 M5 vs Dell PowerEdge MX840c
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Cisco UCS B480 M5 was a full-width 4-socket enterprise blade server engineered for SAP HANA, in-memory databases, and large-scale virtualization. The Dell PowerEdge MX840c is a double-width, four-socket modular compute sled designed for the 7U PowerEdge MX7000 kinetic infrastructure platform.
| Cisco UCS B480 M5 | Dell PowerEdge MX840c | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Cisco | Dell |
| Status | end-of-sale | current |
| Released | Jul 2017 | Sep 2018 |
| Form factor | blade | blade |
| Processor | Up to 4x 1st or 2nd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors up to 28 cores each (up to 205W TDP) | — |
| Memory | 48x DDR4 DIMM slots supporting up to 6TB (including Intel Optane Persistent Memory support) | — |
| Drive bays | Up to 4x front-accessible 2.5-inch SAS/SATA/NVMe SSDs plus internal M.2 boot support | Up to 8x 2.5-inch SAS/SATA/NVMe SSDs |
| Mezzanine slots | Up to 4x mezzanine slots supporting multiple Cisco VIC adapters | — |
| Network | Multiple Cisco VIC 1340 / 1440 adapters providing up to 160Gbps fabric bandwidth | — |
| Chassis compatibility | Cisco UCS 5108 Blade Server Chassis (occupies 2 half-width slots) | — |
| Management | Cisco UCS Manager and Cisco Intersight | — |
| Cpu sockets | — | 4 |
| Cpu platform | — | Intel Xeon Scalable 1st Gen and 2nd Gen (up to 4 processors, 28 cores each, 205W TDP) |
| Memory slots | — | 48 |
| Memory type | — | DDR4-2666 / DDR4-2933 RDIMM / LRDIMM |
| Memory max (GB) | — | 6,144 |
| Pcie slots | — | 4 PCIe Gen3 mezzanine fabric slots |
| Gpu support | — | None supported |
| Network onboard | — | Quad mezzanine cards connected to MX7000 fabrics; iDRAC9 management |
| Power supply | — | Shared redundant power from PowerEdge MX7000 7U chassis |
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