HPE Superdome Flex Superdome Flex vs Lenovo ThinkSystem SR950
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The HPE Superdome Flex is a modular, scale-up x86 server for mission-critical and in-memory workloads such as SAP HANA and large databases. The ThinkSystem SR950 is Lenovo's modular 4U enterprise premier server engineered for extreme mission-critical workloads, scaling from 2 up to 8 Intel Xeon Scalable processors (Skylake and Cascade Lake) in a single coherent symmetric…
| HPE Superdome Flex Superdome Flex | Lenovo ThinkSystem SR950 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | HPE | Lenovo |
| Status | current | end-of-sale |
| Released | Nov 2017 | Jul 2017 |
| Form factor | 5U chassis, 4 sockets each, up to 8 chassis | 4U rack |
| Cpu sockets | 32 | 8 |
| Cpu platform | Intel Xeon Scalable processors (Gold or Platinum): 4 sockets per 5U chassis, 4 to 32 sockets per system, up to 28 cores per socket | Up to 8 Intel Xeon Scalable 1st Gen (Skylake-SP) or 2nd Gen (Cascade Lake-SP) processors up to 205W TDP |
| Memory slots | 48 | 96 |
| Memory type | HPE DDR4, 48 DIMM slots per chassis; Intel Optane Persistent Memory with 2nd Gen 62XX and 82XX processors | DDR4-2666 / DDR4-2933 RDIMM / LRDIMM and Intel Optane Persistent Memory 100 Series |
| Memory max (GB) | 49,152 | 12,288 |
| Drive bays | 4 drive bays on the base chassis (HDD or SSD), plus a DVD-R/RW bay | Up to 24x 2.5-inch SFF hot-swap bays (supporting up to 12 direct NVMe PCIe 3.0 SSDs) |
| Pcie slots | Per chassis: 16 half-height PCIe 3.0 slots, or 8 full-height plus 4 half-height slots, or compute-only with no slots on an expansion chassis | Up to 14 PCIe 3.0 slots plus dedicated LOM slot |
| Gpu support | — | — |
| Network onboard | 2x 10GbE and 2x 1GbE ports on the base chassis, plus management LAN and rack management ports | Modular LOM slot (1GbE/10GbE) plus dedicated 1GbE XClarity management port |
| Power supply | 4x 1600 W 80 PLUS Titanium power supplies per chassis (optional 2130 W) | Up to 4 redundant 1100W / 1600W / 2000W AC 80 PLUS Platinum hot-swap power supplies |
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