Cisco Cisco UCS P81E Virtual Interface Card Data Sheet
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Data Sheet
Cisco UCS Virtual Interface Card 1280
Cisco Unified Computing System Overview
The Cisco Unified Computing System
™
(Cisco UCS
™
) is a next-generation data center platform that unites
compute, network, storage access, and virtualization resources into 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, x86-architecture servers. The system is an integrated,
scalable, multichassis platform in which all resources participate in a unified management domain.
Product Overview
A Cisco
®
innovation, the Cisco UCS Virtual Interface Card (VIC) 1280 (Figure 1) is an eight-port 10 Gigabit
Ethernet, Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)-capable mezzanine card designed exclusively for Cisco UCS
B-Series Blade Servers. The card enables a policy-based, stateless, agile server infrastructure that can present up
to 256 PCIe standards-compliant interfaces to the host that can be dynamically configured as either network
interface cards (NICs) or host bus adapters (HBAs). In addition, the Cisco UCS VIC 1280 supports Cisco Virtual
Machine Fabric Extender (VM-FEX) technology, which extends the Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnect ports to virtual
machines, simplifying server virtualization deployment.
Figure 1. Cisco UCS VIC 1280