Cisco Cisco UCS P81E Virtual Interface Card Data Sheet
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Data Sheet
Cisco UCS Virtual Interface Card 1385
Cisco Unified Computing System Overview
The Cisco Unified Computing System
™
(Cisco UCS
®
) is a next-generation data center platform that unites
computing, networking, storage access, and virtualization resources in a cohesive system designed to reduce total
cost of ownership (TCO) and increase business agility. The system integrates a low-latency, lossless 10 or 40
Gigabit Ethernet unified network fabric with enterprise-class blade and rack x86-architecture servers. The system is
an integrated, scalable, multichassis platform in which all resources participate in a unified management domain.
Product Overview
The Cisco UCS Virtual Interface Card (VIC) 1385 is a Cisco
®
innovation. It provides a policy-based, stateless, agile
server infrastructure for your data center. This dual-port Enhanced Quad Small Form-Factor Pluggable (QSFP)
half-height PCI Express (PCIe) card is designed exclusively for Cisco UCS C-Series Rack Servers. The card
supports 40 Gigabit Ethernet and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE). It incorporates Cisco’s next-generation
supports 40 Gigabit Ethernet and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE). It incorporates Cisco’s next-generation
converged network adapter (CNA) technology and offers a comprehensive feature set, providing investment
protection for future feature software releases. The card can present more than 256 PCIe standards-compliant
interfaces to the host, and these can be dynamically configured as either network interface cards (NICs) or host
bus adapters (HBAs). In addition, the VIC supports Cisco Data Center Virtual Machine Fabric Extender (VM-FEX)
technology. This technology extends the Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnect ports to virtual machines, simplifying
server virtualization deployment.
Figure 1. Cisco UCS VIC 1385