Cisco UCS C480 M5 vs Lenovo ThinkSystem SR860
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Cisco UCS C480 M5 was a 4U 4-socket enterprise rack server designed for in-memory databases, large-scale SAP HANA, business analytics, and massive virtualization consolidation. The Lenovo ThinkSystem SR860 is a 4U 4-socket mission-critical enterprise server driven by 1st and 2nd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors.
| Cisco UCS C480 M5 | Lenovo ThinkSystem SR860 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Cisco | Lenovo |
| Status | end-of-sale | end-of-sale |
| Released | Jul 2017 | May 2018 |
| Form factor | 4U rack | 4U rack |
| Processor | Up to 4x 1st or 2nd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors up to 28 cores each (up to 205W TDP) | 2 or 4x 1st or 2nd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors up to 28 cores each (up to 205W TDP) |
| Memory | 48x DDR4 DIMM slots supporting up to 6TB (with Intel Optane Persistent Memory support) | 48x DDR4 DIMM slots (12 per CPU) supporting up to 6TB DDR4-2933 ECC RDIMM/LRDIMM/Optane PMem |
| Drive bays | Up to 32x 2.5-inch SAS/SATA/NVMe SSDs in front-accessible drive modules | Up to 48x 2.5-inch hot-swap drive bays; supports up to 16 direct-connect NVMe PCIe SSDs |
| Expansion slots | Up to 12x PCIe 3.0 slots plus dedicated mLOM slot; supports up to 6x full-height double-wide GPUs | Up to 13x PCIe 3.0 slots plus dedicated LOM slot |
| Network | mLOM slot for Cisco VIC adapters plus PCIe network interface cards | Dedicated LOM slot supporting 1GbE and 10GbE network mezzanine cards |
| Power supply | Up to 4x redundant hot-swap power supplies up to 1600W | Up to 2x hot-swap 1100W, 1600W, or 2000W Platinum power supplies (1+1 redundancy) |
| Management | Cisco IMC and Cisco Intersight | Lenovo XClarity Controller (XCC) |
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