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Data Sheet 
Cisco UCS Virtual Interface Card 1387 
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) 1387 (Figure 1) 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) modular LAN-on-motherboard (mLOM) adapter is designed 
exclusively for Cisco UCS C-Series and C3160 Rack Servers. The card 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 1387 
 
Features and Benefits 
The Cisco UCS VIC 1387 provides the following features and benefits: 
● 
Stateless and agile platform: 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).