HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen9 vs Lenovo ThinkSystem SR650
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. 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. The ThinkSystem SR650 was Lenovo's core two-socket 2U rack server for 1st and 2nd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors.
| HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen9 | Lenovo ThinkSystem SR650 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | HPE | Lenovo |
| Status | end-of-sale | end-of-sale |
| Released | Sep 2014 | Jul 2017 |
| Form factor | 2U rack | 2U rack |
| Cpu sockets | 2 | 2 |
| Cpu platform | Intel Xeon E5-2600 v3 / v4 series up to 22 cores | Intel Xeon Scalable 1st Gen (Skylake-SP) and 2nd Gen (Cascade Lake-SP) |
| Memory slots | 24 | 24 |
| Memory type | DDR4-2133 / DDR4-2400 SmartMemory RDIMM / LRDIMM | DDR4-2666 / DDR4-2933 RDIMM / LRDIMM |
| Memory max (GB) | 3,072 | 3,072 |
| Drive bays | Up to 24 SFF SAS/SATA or 12 LFF SAS/SATA plus rear drives | Up to 24x 2.5-inch SFF or 14x 3.5-inch LFF hot-swap bays; up to 8 AnyBay NVMe bays |
| Pcie slots | Up to 6 PCIe 3.0 expansion slots | Up to 7 PCIe 3.0 slots plus dedicated LOM and internal storage slots |
| Power supply | HPE 500W, 800W, or 1400W Flex Slot Platinum hot-plug | Dual redundant 550W / 750W / 1100W / 1600W AC 80 PLUS Platinum or Titanium PSUs |
| Gpu support | — | Up to 2 double-wide 300W GPUs or 4 single-wide GPUs |
| Network onboard | — | Modular LOM adapter slot (1GbE or 10GbE) plus dedicated 1GbE XClarity management port |
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