Dell PowerEdge M1000e vs HPE Synergy 12000 Frame
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The PowerEdge M1000e is Dell 10U modular blade enclosure supporting up to 16 half-height blade servers across six hot-pluggable redundant I/O fabrics. The HPE Synergy 12000 Frame is a 10U composable infrastructure chassis that aggregates compute, storage, and multi-fabric networking resources under software-defined intelligence.
| Dell PowerEdge M1000e | HPE Synergy 12000 Frame | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Dell | HPE |
| Status | end-of-sale | current |
| Released | Jan 2008 | Jan 2016 |
| Form factor | modular chassis | chassis |
| Chassis size | 10U modular blade chassis | — |
| Blade capacity | Up to 16 half-height or 8 full-height blade servers | — |
| Fabric slots | 6x interconnect bays supporting Ethernet, Fibre Channel, and InfiniBand | — |
| Management | Dual redundant Chassis Management Controller (CMC) modules | Dual redundant HPE Synergy Composer modules (powered by OneView) |
| Power supply | Up to 6x hot-plug redundant power supply modules (2700W or 3000W) | Up to 6x 2650W Platinum hot-plug power supplies |
| 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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