Cisco UCS X9508 Chassis vs HPE Synergy 12000 Frame
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 HPE Synergy 12000 Frame is a 10U composable infrastructure chassis that aggregates compute, storage, and multi-fabric networking resources under software-defined intelligence.
| Cisco UCS X9508 Chassis | HPE Synergy 12000 Frame | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Cisco | HPE |
| Status | current | current |
| Released | Jun 2021 | Jan 2016 |
| Form factor | chassis | 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 2650W Platinum hot-plug power supplies |
| Cooling | 54V power distribution with 4x dual-rotor high-efficiency fans | — |
| Management | 100% managed via Cisco Intersight cloud SaaS | Dual redundant HPE Synergy Composer modules (powered by OneView) |
| Height rack units | — | 10U chassis |
| Compute module capacity | — | Up to 12 half-height or 6 full-height compute modules |
| Interconnect bays | — | 6 interconnect module bays for 3 redundant fabrics |
| Fabric bandwidth | — | Multi-terabit passive midplane architecture |
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