HPE SimpliVity 380 Gen10 vs Lenovo ThinkAgile VX5520
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The HPE SimpliVity 380 Gen10 is an enterprise 2U hyperconverged node pairing the reliability of the DL380 Gen10 server with the OmniStack data virtualization engine. The Lenovo ThinkAgile VX5520 is a 2U storage-dense VMware vSAN appliance optimized for capacity-intensive virtualization, backup repositories, and big data workloads.
| HPE SimpliVity 380 Gen10 | Lenovo ThinkAgile VX5520 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | HPE | Lenovo |
| Status | end-of-sale | end-of-sale |
| Released | Sep 2017 | May 2018 |
| Form factor | 2U rack | 2U rack |
| Form factor | 2U rack-mount chassis | — |
| Cpu sockets | 2 | — |
| Cpu support | Intel Xeon Scalable 1st and 2nd Gen processors | — |
| Memory capacity | Up to 3TB DDR4 ECC SmartMemory | — |
| Storage options | All-flash enterprise SSDs with usable capacity from 6TB to 40TB | — |
| Hardware acceleration | OmniStack PCIe Accelerator or Software Data Virtualization | — |
| Hypervisors | VMware vSphere ESXi and Microsoft Windows Server Hyper-V | — |
| 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 |
| Power supply | — | Dual redundant hot-swap 750W or 1100W Platinum power supplies |
| Management | — | VMware vCenter and Lenovo XClarity |
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