Cisco UCS C240 M4 vs Dell PowerEdge R730
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Cisco UCS C240 M4 was a 2U 2-socket enterprise rack server powered by Intel Xeon E5-2600 v3 and v4 processors. The Dell PowerEdge R730 is an enterprise 2U rack server powered by 2 Intel Xeon E5-2600 v3 and E5-2600 v4 Series Processors (up to 22 cores per socket, 145W TDP) and 24 memory slots supporting up to 3072GB DDR4-2133 / DDR4-2400 RDIMM /…
| Cisco UCS C240 M4 | Dell PowerEdge R730 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Cisco | Dell |
| Status | end-of-support | end-of-support |
| Released | Sep 2014 | Sep 2014 |
| Form factor | 2U rack | 2U rack |
| Processor | Up to 2x Intel Xeon E5-2600 v3 or v4 processors up to 22 cores each | — |
| Memory | 24x DDR4 DIMM slots supporting up to 1.5TB DDR4-2400 | — |
| Drive bays | Up to 24x 2.5-inch SAS/SATA/SSD drives or up to 12x 3.5-inch SAS/SATA drives | Up to 16x 2.5-inch SAS/SATA or 8x 3.5-inch SAS/SATA drives |
| Expansion slots | Up to 6x PCIe 3.0 slots plus dedicated mLOM slot; supports up to 2x double-wide GPUs | — |
| Network | mLOM slot for Cisco VIC adapters plus dual 1GbE onboard ports | — |
| Power supply | Dual redundant hot-swap power supplies up to 1400W | Dual redundant hot-plug 495W, 750W or 1100W Platinum/Titanium |
| Management | Cisco IMC | — |
| Cpu sockets | — | 2 |
| Cpu platform | — | Intel Xeon E5-2600 v3 and E5-2600 v4 Series Processors (up to 22 cores per socket, 145W TDP) |
| Memory slots | — | 24 |
| Memory type | — | DDR4-2133 / DDR4-2400 RDIMM / LRDIMM |
| Memory max (GB) | — | 3,072 |
| Pcie slots | — | Up to 7 PCIe Gen3 slots |
| Gpu support | — | Up to 2x 300W double-wide or 4x 150W single-wide GPUs |
| Network onboard | — | Network Daughter Card (NDC) slot with 4x 1GbE or 2x 10GbE + 2x 1GbE; 1x 1GbE iDRAC8 dedicated port |
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