Dell PowerEdge M820 vs HPE ProLiant DL560 Gen9
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The PowerEdge M820 is a full-height four-socket enterprise blade server designed for the M1000e chassis, combining four Intel Xeon E5-4600 v2 processors and 48 DDR3 DIMM slots. The HPE ProLiant DL560 Gen9 is a high-density 2U four-socket enterprise server designed for business-critical computing, large-scale virtualization, and in-memory database consolidation.
| Dell PowerEdge M820 | HPE ProLiant DL560 Gen9 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Dell | HPE |
| Status | end-of-support | end-of-sale |
| Released | Jun 2012 | May 2015 |
| Form factor | blade | 2U rack |
| Cpu sockets | 4 | 4 |
| Cpu platform | Intel Xeon E5-4600 and E5-4600 v2 series processors | Intel Xeon E5-4600 v3 / v4 series up to 22 cores |
| Memory slots | 48 | 48 |
| Memory type | DDR3 ECC RDIMM/LRDIMM up to 1866 MT/s | DDR4-2133 / DDR4-2400 SmartMemory RDIMM / LRDIMM |
| Drive bays | Up to 4x 2.5in SAS/SATA drives | Up to 24 SFF SAS/SATA drives |
| Chassis compatibility | PowerEdge M1000e modular blade chassis | — |
| Memory max (GB) | — | 3,072 |
| Pcie slots | — | Up to 7 PCIe 3.0 expansion slots |
| Power supply | — | HPE 1200W or 1500W Common Slot Platinum Plus hot-plug |
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