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Data Sheet

Cisco UCS Virtual Interface Card 1227T

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 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) 1227T enables a policy-based, stateless, agile server infrastructure for

your data center. It supports 10-Gbps Ethernet and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE). The card is a dual-port

10GBASE-T (RJ-45) PCI Express (PCIe) modular LAN-on-motherboard (mLOM) adapter designed exclusively for

Cisco UCS C-Series Rack Servers (Figure 1). New to Cisco

rack servers, the mLOM slot can be used to install a

Cisco VIC without consuming a PCIe slot, which provides greater I/O expandability. The card incorporates next-

generation converged network adapter (CNA) technology from Cisco. The adapter provides Fibre Channel

connectivity over low-cost twisted pair cabling with a bit error rate (BER) of 10 to 15 up to 30 meters and

investment protection for future feature releases. The mLOM card can present up to 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 1227T