Cisco UCS B480 M5 vs HPE ProLiant BL660c Gen9
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 HPE ProLiant BL660c Gen9 is a full height four socket blade for BladeSystem c3000 and c7000 enclosures.
| Cisco UCS B480 M5 | HPE ProLiant BL660c Gen9 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Cisco | HPE |
| Status | end-of-sale | end-of-sale |
| Released | Jul 2017 | — |
| Form factor | blade | full-height c-Class server 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 | 4 SFF hot-plug bays |
| 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 E5-4600 v3 or v4 family (two or four processors) |
| Memory slots | — | 32 |
| Memory type | — | DDR4 |
| Storage controller | — | Smart Array P246br with 1GB FBWC |
| Expansion | — | 3 mezzanine slots plus FlexibleLOM adapters |
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