Dell PowerEdge R640 vs Lenovo ThinkAgile HX2320
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Dell PowerEdge R640 is an enterprise 1U rack server powered by 2 Intel Xeon Scalable 1st Gen (Skylake) and 2nd Gen (Cascade Lake) and 24 memory slots supporting up to 3072GB DDR4-2666 / DDR4-2933 RDIMM / LRDIMM. The Lenovo ThinkAgile HX2320 is a 1U dual-socket Nutanix hyperconverged appliance built for small-to-medium enterprise workloads, light VDI, and office virtualization.
| Dell PowerEdge R640 | Lenovo ThinkAgile HX2320 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Dell | Lenovo |
| Status | end-of-sale | end-of-sale |
| Released | Jul 2017 | May 2018 |
| Form factor | 1U rack | 1U rack |
| Cpu sockets | 2 | — |
| Cpu platform | Intel Xeon Scalable 1st Gen (Skylake) and 2nd Gen (Cascade Lake), up to 28 cores, 205W TDP | — |
| Memory slots | 24 | — |
| Memory type | DDR4-2666 / DDR4-2933 RDIMM / LRDIMM | — |
| Memory max (GB) | 3,072 | — |
| Drive bays | Up to 10x 2.5-inch SAS/SATA/NVMe or 4x 3.5-inch SAS/SATA drives | — |
| Pcie slots | Up to 3 PCIe Gen3 slots | — |
| Gpu support | Up to 1x 75W single-wide PCIe GPU | — |
| Network onboard | Network Daughter Card (NDC) slot; 1x 1GbE iDRAC9 dedicated port | — |
| Power supply | Dual redundant hot-plug 495W, 750W, 1100W or 1600W Platinum/Titanium | Dual redundant hot-swap 750W Platinum power supplies |
| Processor | — | Up to 2x 1st or 2nd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors up to 26 cores each (up to 150W TDP) |
| Memory | — | 16x DDR4 DIMM slots supporting up to 1TB DDR4-2933 ECC RDIMM |
| Storage pools | — | Up to 10x 2.5-inch hybrid or all-flash SAS/SATA/NVMe SSD bays |
| Hypervisor | — | Nutanix AHV or VMware ESXi |
| Network | — | Dual 10/25GbE optical or copper adapters plus dedicated management interface |
| Management | — | Nutanix Prism Central and Lenovo XClarity |
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