Dell VxRail S670 vs Lenovo ThinkSystem SR650 V2
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Dell VxRail S670 is a storage-dense 2U hyperconverged appliance engineered for big data analytics, Splunk logging clusters, CCTV surveillance repositories, and long-term VMware archive workloads. The ThinkSystem SR650 V2 is Lenovo's mainstream two-socket 2U rack server powered by 3rd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable (Ice Lake) processors.
| Dell VxRail S670 | Lenovo ThinkSystem SR650 V2 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Dell | Lenovo |
| Status | current | current |
| Released | Jun 2021 | Apr 2021 |
| Form factor | 2U rack | 2U rack |
| Cpu platform | Dual Intel Xeon Scalable 3rd Gen (Ice Lake) processors | 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors (Ice Lake-SP) up to 270W TDP |
| Memory max (GB) | 2,048 | 8,192 |
| Drive bays | 12x 3.5-inch SAS/SATA drive bays + up to 2x or 4x rear 2.5-inch SSD bays for vSAN cache | Up to 40x 2.5-inch SFF or 20x 3.5-inch LFF hot-swap bays; up to 32x NVMe PCIe 4.0 drives |
| Raw capacity | Up to 240TB raw capacity per 2U node (using 20TB 3.5-inch drives) | — |
| Network onboard | Broadcom / Intel OCP 3.0 mezzanine (25GbE SFP28 / 10GbE) | OCP 3.0 slot (1GbE/10GbE/25GbE) plus dedicated 1GbE XClarity management port |
| Power supply | Dual redundant hot-plug 1400W Platinum power supplies | Dual redundant 750W / 1100W / 1800W / 2400W AC 80 PLUS Platinum or Titanium PSUs |
| Cpu sockets | — | 2 |
| Memory slots | — | 32 |
| Memory type | — | DDR4-3200 RDIMM / 3DS RDIMM and Intel Optane Persistent Memory 200 Series |
| Pcie slots | — | Up to 8 PCIe 4.0 slots plus 1 OCP 3.0 SFF slot and internal storage adapter slot |
| Gpu support | — | Up to 3 double-wide 300W GPUs or 8 single-wide 75W GPUs |
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