Dell PowerEdge C6420 vs HPE ProLiant XL170r Gen9 Server
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Dell PowerEdge C6420 is an enterprise 2U 4-node server powered by 2 Intel Xeon Scalable 1st Gen (Skylake) and 2nd Gen (Cascade Lake) and 16 memory slots supporting up to 1024GB DDR4-2666 / DDR4-2933 RDIMM (per node). The HPE ProLiant XL170r Gen9 is a 1U half-width dual-socket server tray engineered for the Apollo 2000 System.
| Dell PowerEdge C6420 | HPE ProLiant XL170r Gen9 Server | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Dell | HPE |
| Status | end-of-sale | end-of-sale |
| Released | Jul 2017 | Mar 2015 |
| Form factor | 2U 4-node | 1U half-width tray |
| Cpu sockets | 2 | — |
| Cpu platform | Intel Xeon Scalable 1st Gen (Skylake) and 2nd Gen (Cascade Lake), up to 28 cores, 205W TDP | — |
| Memory slots | 16 | — |
| Memory type | DDR4-2666 / DDR4-2933 RDIMM (per node) | — |
| Memory max (GB) | 1,024 | — |
| Drive bays | Up to 6x 2.5-inch SAS/SATA/NVMe or 3x 3.5-inch SAS/SATA drives per node (24x 2.5 or 12x 3.5 in 2U) | — |
| Pcie slots | Up to 2 PCIe Gen3 slots per node | — |
| Gpu support | None supported | — |
| Network onboard | Network Daughter Card (NDC) slot; 1x 1GbE iDRAC9 port per node | — |
| Power supply | Shared dual hot-plug 1600W, 2000W or 2400W Platinum in C6400 chassis | — |
| Processor | — | Up to 2 Intel Xeon E5-2600 v3/v4 series processors |
| Memory | — | 16 DDR4 DIMM slots up to 1TB ECC Registered SmartMemory |
| Storage | — | Up to 6 SFF or 3 LFF SAS/SATA drives allocated from Apollo 2000 chassis |
| Expansion | — | 1 PCIe 3.0 x16 low-profile slot and 1 FlexibleLOM network slot |
| Management | — | HPE Integrated Lights-Out 4 (iLO 4) standard |
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