Cisco UCS C240 M5 vs Lenovo ThinkSystem SR650
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 ThinkSystem SR650 was Lenovo's core two-socket 2U rack server for 1st and 2nd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors.
| Cisco UCS C240 M5 | Lenovo ThinkSystem SR650 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Cisco | Lenovo |
| 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 24x 2.5-inch SFF or 14x 3.5-inch LFF hot-swap bays; up to 8 AnyBay NVMe bays |
| 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 | Dual redundant 550W / 750W / 1100W / 1600W AC 80 PLUS Platinum or Titanium PSUs |
| Management | Cisco IMC and Cisco Intersight | — |
| Cpu sockets | — | 2 |
| Cpu platform | — | Intel Xeon Scalable 1st Gen (Skylake-SP) and 2nd Gen (Cascade Lake-SP) |
| Memory slots | — | 24 |
| Memory type | — | DDR4-2666 / DDR4-2933 RDIMM / LRDIMM |
| Memory max (GB) | — | 3,072 |
| Pcie slots | — | Up to 7 PCIe 3.0 slots plus dedicated LOM and internal storage slots |
| Gpu support | — | Up to 2 double-wide 300W GPUs or 4 single-wide GPUs |
| Network onboard | — | Modular LOM adapter slot (1GbE or 10GbE) plus dedicated 1GbE XClarity management port |
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