Cisco Cisco UCS C22 M3 Rack Server Data Sheet
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Data Sheet
Cisco UCS Virtual Interface Card 1240
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) 1240 (Figure 1) is a 4-port 10 Gigabit Ethernet,
Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)-capable modular LAN on motherboard (mLOM) designed exclusively for the
M3 or M4 generations of Cisco UCS B-Series Blade Servers. When used in combination with an optional Port
Expander, the Cisco UCS VIC 1240 capabilities can be expanded to eight ports of 10 Gigabit Ethernet.
The Cisco UCS VIC 1240 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 1240 supports Cisco Data Center 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 1240