Cisco UCS C460 M4 vs Dell PowerEdge R930
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Cisco UCS C460 M4 was a 4U 4-socket enterprise rack server powered by Intel Xeon E7-8800 and E7-4800 v3/v4 processors. The Dell PowerEdge R930 is a 4U four-socket enterprise mission-critical server built for massive transactional databases, SAP HANA, real-time analytics, and enterprise data warehouses.
| Cisco UCS C460 M4 | Dell PowerEdge R930 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Cisco | Dell |
| Status | end-of-support | end-of-support |
| Released | Sep 2014 | May 2015 |
| Form factor | 4U rack | 4U rack |
| Processor | Up to 4x Intel Xeon E7-8800 or E7-4800 v3 or v4 processors up to 24 cores each | — |
| Memory | 96x DDR4 DIMM slots supporting up to 6TB memory | — |
| Drive bays | Up to 12x 2.5-inch SAS/SATA/SSD drives | Up to 24x 2.5-inch SAS/SATA drives (with up to 8 NVMe SSDs) |
| Expansion slots | Up to 10x PCIe 3.0 slots plus dedicated mLOM slot | — |
| Network | mLOM slot for Cisco VIC 1227 / 1387 plus quad 1GbE ports | — |
| Power supply | Up to 4x redundant hot-swap power supplies up to 1400W | Quad redundant hot-plug 1100W, 1600W or 2000W Platinum |
| Management | Cisco IMC | — |
| Cpu sockets | — | 4 |
| Cpu platform | — | Intel Xeon E7-8800 v3/v4 or E7-4800 v3/v4 Series Processors (up to 4 processors, 24 cores each, 165W TDP) |
| Memory slots | — | 96 |
| Memory type | — | DDR4-2133 / DDR4-2400 RDIMM / LRDIMM (via 8 memory risers) |
| Memory max (GB) | — | 6,144 |
| Pcie slots | — | Up to 10 PCIe Gen3 slots |
| Gpu support | — | None supported |
| Network onboard | — | Network Daughter Card (NDC) slot; 1x 1GbE iDRAC8 port |
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