Dell PowerEdge R740xd vs Lenovo ThinkAgile VX5520
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Dell PowerEdge R740xd 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 VX5520 is a 2U storage-dense VMware vSAN appliance optimized for capacity-intensive virtualization, backup repositories, and big data workloads.
| Dell PowerEdge R740xd | Lenovo ThinkAgile VX5520 | |
|---|---|---|
| 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 32x 2.5-inch SAS/SATA/NVMe (24 front, 4 mid, 4 rear) or 18x 3.5-inch (12 front, 4 mid, 2 rear) | — |
| 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; 1x 1GbE iDRAC9 dedicated port | — |
| Power supply | Dual redundant hot-plug 750W, 1100W, 1600W, 2000W or 2400W Platinum/Titanium | Dual redundant hot-swap 750W or 1100W 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 | — | 24x DDR4 DIMM slots supporting up to 1.5TB DDR4-2933 ECC RDIMM |
| Storage pools | — | Up to 14x 3.5-inch SAS/SATA drive bays configured with NVMe/SAS SSD write cache |
| Hypervisor | — | VMware ESXi and VMware vSAN |
| Network | — | Dual 10/25GbE optical ports via LOM card plus optional high-speed PCIe NICs |
| Management | — | VMware vCenter and Lenovo XClarity |
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