Dell PowerEdge R740 vs Lenovo ThinkAgile VX7520
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Dell PowerEdge R740 is an enterprise 2U 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 VX7520 is a 2U dual-socket VMware vSAN appliance built for high-performance databases, SAP HANA, and intensive transactional workloads.
| Dell PowerEdge R740 | Lenovo ThinkAgile VX7520 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Dell | Lenovo |
| Status | end-of-sale | end-of-sale |
| Released | Jul 2017 | May 2018 |
| Form factor | 2U rack | 2U 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 16x 2.5-inch SAS/SATA or 8x 3.5-inch SAS/SATA drives | — |
| Pcie slots | Up to 8 PCIe Gen3 slots | — |
| Gpu support | Up to 3x 300W double-wide or 6x 150W single-wide GPUs | — |
| Network onboard | Network Daughter Card (NDC) slot with 4x 1GbE, 2x 10GbE + 2x 1GbE, or 4x 10GbE options; 1x 1GbE iDRAC9 dedicated port | — |
| Power supply | Dual redundant hot-plug 495W, 750W, 1100W, 1600W, 2000W or 2400W Platinum/Titanium | Dual redundant hot-swap 1100W or 1600W Platinum power supplies |
| Processor | — | Up to 2x 1st or 2nd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors up to 28 cores each (up to 205W TDP) |
| Memory | — | 24x DDR4 DIMM slots supporting up to 1.5TB DDR4-2933 ECC RDIMM |
| Storage pools | — | Up to 24x 2.5-inch all-flash SAS/NVMe SSD bays with dual vSAN disk groups |
| Hypervisor | — | VMware ESXi and VMware vSAN |
| Network | — | Dual 10/25GbE optical ports with RDMA support plus PCIe expansion slots |
| Management | — | VMware vCenter and Lenovo XClarity Integrator |
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