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Cisco Rack Servers vs. PowerEdge Rack Servers

A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.

MetricCisco Rack Servers

by Cisco

PowerEdge Rack Servers

by Dell Technologies

Overall rating4.24.7
Review count1615
Ease of use8.49.3
Ease of setup7.99.3
Quality of support9.19.3
Meets requirements9.29.7
NPS37.580
Small Business25.0%0.0%
Mid-Market50.0%0.0%
Enterprise25.0%100.0%
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Total LLM citations22672

Cisco Rack Servers

The Cisco UCS C480 M5 Rack Server is a high-performance, enterprise-class server designed to handle demanding workloads such as in-memory databases, big data analytics, virtualization, and Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI. Housed in a 4-Rack-Unit (4RU form factor, it offers a scalable and flexible solution for both standalone and Cisco Unified Computing System™ (Cisco UCS managed environments. Key Features and Functionality: - Processor Support: Accommodates up to four Intel® Xeon® Scalable CPUs, each with up to 28 cores, providing substantial processing power for intensive applications.

Pros

    PowerEdge Rack Servers

    Drive demanding workloads including VDI, AI/machine learning and private cloud with workhorse servers that deliver the optimum balance of storage, I/O, application acceleration and configuration flexibility. Highly flexible configurations with up to 16 x 2.5-or 8 x 3.5- drives, 8 PCIe slots, 24 DIMMS (including 12 NVDIMM-Ns) 50% more accelerator card support with up to 3 x 300W or 6 x 150W cards Industry-leading energy efficiency with correct air flow delivered to each PCIe slot via multi-vector cooling Internal storage subsystem optimized for M.2 boot

    Pros