Cisco UCS C240 M5 vs HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen10
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Cisco UCS C240 M5 was a 2U 2-socket enterprise rack server designed for storage-intensive workloads, big data, and virtualization clusters. The HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen10 is one of the most widely deployed 2U dual-socket enterprise rack servers globally.
| Cisco UCS C240 M5 | HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen10 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Cisco | HPE |
| Status | end-of-sale | end-of-sale |
| Released | Jul 2017 | Jul 2017 |
| Form factor | 2U rack | 2U rack |
| Processor | Up to 2x 1st or 2nd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors up to 28 cores each (up to 205W TDP) | — |
| Memory | 24x DDR4 DIMM slots supporting up to 3TB (including Intel Optane Persistent Memory support) | — |
| Drive bays | Up to 26x 2.5-inch SAS/SATA/NVMe SSDs or up to 12x 3.5-inch SAS/SATA HDDs, plus dual internal SD/M.2 | Up to 24 SFF SAS/SATA, 12 LFF SAS/SATA, or up to 20 NVMe PCIe SSDs |
| Expansion slots | Up to 6x PCIe 3.0 slots plus 1x dedicated mLOM slot; supports up to 2x double-wide GPUs | — |
| Network | mLOM slot for Cisco VIC 1387 / 1457 plus dual 10GBase-T onboard ports | — |
| Power supply | Dual redundant hot-swap power supplies up to 1600W | HPE 500W, 800W, or 1600W Flex Slot Platinum hot-plug power supplies |
| Management | Cisco IMC and Cisco Intersight | — |
| Cpu sockets | — | 2 |
| Cpu platform | — | Intel Xeon Scalable 1st Gen (Skylake) and 2nd Gen (Cascade Lake) |
| Memory slots | — | 24 |
| Memory type | — | DDR4-2666 / DDR4-2933 SmartMemory RDIMM / LRDIMM |
| Memory max (GB) | — | 3,072 |
| Pcie slots | — | Up to 8 PCIe 3.0 expansion slots via primary and secondary risers |
| Gpu support | — | Up to 3 double-width or 5 single-width full-length GPUs |
| Network onboard | — | Embedded 4x 1GbE 331i network adapter plus FlexibleLOM slot |
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