Cisco Cisco UCS P81E Virtual Interface Card Data Sheet
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Features
The following sections present the main features of the Cisco UCS VIC 1227T.
Stateless and Agile Design
The personality of the card is determined dynamically at boot time using the service profile associated with the
server. The number, type (NIC or HBA), identity (MAC address and World Wide Name [WWN]), failover policy,
bandwidth, and quality-of-service (QoS) policies of the PCIe interfaces are all determined using the service profile.
The capability to define, create, and use interfaces on demand provides a stateless and agile server infrastructure
(Figure 2).
Figure 2. Virtual Device Support on the Cisco UCS VIC 1227T
Network Interface Virtualization
Each PCIe interface created on the VIC is associated with an interface on the Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnect,
providing complete network separation for each virtual cable between a PCIe device on the VIC and the interface
on the Fabric Interconnect (Figure 3).