HPE ProLiant XL170r Gen9 Server vs Lenovo ThinkSystem SD530
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The HPE ProLiant XL170r Gen9 is a 1U half-width dual-socket server tray engineered for the Apollo 2000 System. The ThinkSystem SD530 was Lenovo's modular 2U 4-node ultra-dense multi-node server designed for high-performance computing (HPC), enterprise grid clusters, large-scale financial simulation, and cloud service provider scale-out…
| HPE ProLiant XL170r Gen9 Server | Lenovo ThinkSystem SD530 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | HPE | Lenovo |
| Status | end-of-sale | end-of-sale |
| Released | Mar 2015 | Jul 2017 |
| Form factor | 1U half-width tray | 2U 4-node |
| Processor | Up to 2 Intel Xeon E5-2600 v3/v4 series processors | — |
| Memory | 16 DDR4 DIMM slots up to 1TB ECC Registered SmartMemory | — |
| Storage | Up to 6 SFF or 3 LFF SAS/SATA drives allocated from Apollo 2000 chassis | — |
| Expansion | 1 PCIe 3.0 x16 low-profile slot and 1 FlexibleLOM network slot | — |
| Management | HPE Integrated Lights-Out 4 (iLO 4) standard | — |
| Cpu sockets | — | 2 |
| Cpu platform | — | Dual Intel Xeon Scalable 1st Gen (Skylake-SP) or 2nd Gen (Cascade Lake-SP) processors up to 165W TDP per node (8 CPUs per 2U chassis) |
| Memory slots | — | 16 |
| Memory type | — | DDR4-2666 / DDR4-2933 RDIMM / LRDIMM |
| Memory max (GB) | — | 1,024 |
| Drive bays | — | Up to 6x 2.5-inch SFF hot-swap bays per node (up to 24 drives per 2U D2 chassis) |
| Pcie slots | — | Up to 2 PCIe 3.0 slots plus 1 dedicated LOM slot per node |
| Network onboard | — | Modular LOM slot per node plus shared chassis Scalable Infrastructure Management Controller |
| Power supply | — | Shared redundant 1600W / 2000W AC 80 PLUS Platinum power supplies in D2 chassis |
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