Cisco UCS C240 M6 vs HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen10 Plus
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Cisco UCS C240 M6 is a 2U 2-socket enterprise rack server powered by 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors. The HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen10 Plus acts as the transition platform between the classic Gen10 and Gen11 architectures, adopting 3rd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable Ice Lake processors.
| Cisco UCS C240 M6 | HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen10 Plus | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Cisco | HPE |
| Status | current | current |
| Released | Apr 2021 | Apr 2021 |
| Form factor | 2U rack | 2U rack |
| Processor | Up to 2x 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors up to 40 cores each (up to 270W TDP) | — |
| Memory | 32x DDR4 DIMM slots supporting up to 8TB (including Intel Optane Persistent Memory 200 Series) | — |
| Drive bays | Up to 28x 2.5-inch SAS/SATA/NVMe SSDs or up to 12x 3.5-inch SAS/SATA HDDs, plus internal M.2 | Up to 24 SFF SAS/SATA/NVMe U.3 or 12 LFF SAS/SATA, plus 2 rear SFF |
| Expansion slots | Up to 8x PCIe Gen 4 slots plus dedicated OCP 3.0 slot; supports up to 2x double-wide GPUs | — |
| Network | OCP 3.0 slot and PCIe Cisco VIC adapters supporting 25GbE, 40GbE, and 100GbE | — |
| Power supply | Dual redundant hot-swap power supplies up to 2300W | HPE 800W or 1600W Flex Slot Platinum hot-plug redundant power supplies |
| Management | Cisco IMC and Cisco Intersight | — |
| Cpu sockets | — | 2 |
| Cpu platform | — | Intel Xeon Scalable 3rd Gen (Ice Lake-SP) |
| Memory slots | — | 32 |
| Memory type | — | DDR4-3200 SmartMemory RDIMM / LRDIMM |
| Memory max (GB) | — | 8,192 |
| Pcie slots | — | Up to 8 PCIe 4.0 expansion slots |
| Gpu support | — | Up to 3 double-wide or 8 single-wide PCIe accelerators |
| Network onboard | — | OCP 3.0 Gen4 slot plus optional FlexibleLOM riser adapter; 1Gb iLO 5 management port |
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