Cisco UCS X9508 Chassis vs Dell PowerEdge MX7000
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Cisco UCS X9508 Chassis is a 7U modular system chassis designed to house up to 8 vertically oriented compute or fabric nodes. The PowerEdge MX7000 is Dell 7U modular kinetic infrastructure chassis designed to host disaggregated compute, storage, and networking sleds.
| Cisco UCS X9508 Chassis | Dell PowerEdge MX7000 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Cisco | Dell |
| Status | current | current |
| Released | Jun 2021 | Sep 2018 |
| Form factor | chassis | modular chassis |
| Chassis form factor | 7U modular enclosure supporting 8 vertical node bays | — |
| Midplane architecture | Midplane-free direct-connect architecture | — |
| Fabric modules | Dual Intelligent Fabric Modules (IFMs: Cisco UCS 9108 25G or 100G IFMs) | — |
| Pcie fabric | Dual Cisco UCS 9416 X-Fabric modules providing PCIe Gen 4 interconnects for composable GPUs | — |
| Power supply | Up to 6x redundant 2800W Titanium hot-swap power supplies | Up to 6x 3000W Platinum hot-plug redundant power supplies |
| Cooling | 54V power distribution with 4x dual-rotor high-efficiency fans | — |
| Management | 100% managed via Cisco Intersight cloud SaaS | Dual redundant OpenManage Enterprise Modular Edition (OME-M) modules |
| Chassis size | — | 7U modular rack enclosure |
| Sled slots | — | 8x single-width compute sled slots or 4x double-width sleds |
| Fabric slots | — | 6x I/O module bays across Fabric A, B, and C |
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