Cisco UCS C125 M5 vs Lenovo ThinkSystem SD530
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Cisco UCS C125 M5 was a 2-socket high-density server node engineered for the Cisco UCS C4200 2U 4-node chassis. The ThinkSystem SD530 was Lenovo's modular 2U 4-node ultra-dense multi-node server designed for high-performance computing (HPC), enterprise grid clusters, large-scale financial simulation, and cloud service provider scale-out…
| Cisco UCS C125 M5 | Lenovo ThinkSystem SD530 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Cisco | Lenovo |
| Status | end-of-sale | end-of-sale |
| Released | Sep 2018 | Jul 2017 |
| Form factor | multi-node | 2U 4-node |
| Processor | Up to 2x AMD EPYC 7001 or 7002 series processors up to 64 cores each (up to 240W TDP) | — |
| Memory | 16x DDR4 DIMM slots per node supporting up to 2TB DDR4-3200 | — |
| Drive bays | Up to 6x 2.5-inch SAS/SATA/NVMe SSDs per node in the C4200 chassis | Up to 6x 2.5-inch SFF hot-swap bays per node (up to 24 drives per 2U D2 chassis) |
| Expansion slots | 2x PCIe 3.0 slots plus 1x dedicated OCP 2.0 slot per node | — |
| Network | OCP 2.0 mezzanine slot supporting 10GbE, 25GbE, 40GbE, and 100GbE adapters | — |
| Chassis compatibility | Cisco UCS C4200 Series Rack Server Chassis (houses 4 C125 M5 nodes in 2U) | — |
| Management | Cisco IMC and Cisco Intersight | — |
| Cpu sockets | — | 2 |
| Cpu platform | — | Dual Intel Xeon Scalable 1st Gen (Skylake-SP) or 2nd Gen (Cascade Lake-SP) processors up to 165W TDP per node (8 CPUs per 2U chassis) |
| Memory slots | — | 16 |
| Memory type | — | DDR4-2666 / DDR4-2933 RDIMM / LRDIMM |
| Memory max (GB) | — | 1,024 |
| Pcie slots | — | Up to 2 PCIe 3.0 slots plus 1 dedicated LOM slot per node |
| Network onboard | — | Modular LOM slot per node plus shared chassis Scalable Infrastructure Management Controller |
| Power supply | — | Shared redundant 1600W / 2000W AC 80 PLUS Platinum power supplies in D2 chassis |
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