Dell PowerEdge R530 vs HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen9
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Dell PowerEdge R530 is an enterprise 2U rack server powered by 2 Intel Xeon E5-2600 v3 and E5-2600 v4 Series Processors (up to 135W TDP) and 12 memory slots supporting up to 384GB DDR4-2133 / DDR4-2400 RDIMM. The HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen9 is the benchmark 2U dual-socket enterprise rack server of its generation, widely deployed across enterprise IT for virtualization, database servers, and ERP workloads.
| Dell PowerEdge R530 | HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen9 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Dell | HPE |
| Status | end-of-support | end-of-sale |
| Released | Nov 2014 | Sep 2014 |
| Form factor | 2U rack | 2U rack |
| Cpu sockets | 2 | 2 |
| Cpu platform | Intel Xeon E5-2600 v3 and E5-2600 v4 Series Processors (up to 135W TDP) | Intel Xeon E5-2600 v3 / v4 series up to 22 cores |
| Memory slots | 12 | 24 |
| Memory type | DDR4-2133 / DDR4-2400 RDIMM | DDR4-2133 / DDR4-2400 SmartMemory RDIMM / LRDIMM |
| Memory max (GB) | 384 | 3,072 |
| Drive bays | Up to 8x 3.5-inch hot-swap SAS/SATA drives | Up to 24 SFF SAS/SATA or 12 LFF SAS/SATA plus rear drives |
| Pcie slots | Up to 5 PCIe Gen3 slots | Up to 6 PCIe 3.0 expansion slots |
| Gpu support | None supported | — |
| Network onboard | 4x 1GbE embedded LOM ports; 1x 1GbE iDRAC8 port | — |
| Power supply | Dual redundant hot-plug 495W or 750W Platinum | HPE 500W, 800W, or 1400W Flex Slot Platinum hot-plug |
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