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Data Sheet 

Cisco UCS Virtual Interface Card 1225T 

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 

A Cisco

®

 innovation, the Cisco UCS Virtual Interface Card (VIC) 1225T (Figure 1) is a dual-port 10GBASE-T 10 

Gigabit Ethernet and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)-capable PCI Express (PCIe) card designed exclusively 

for Cisco UCS C-Series Rack Servers. With its half-height design, the card preserves full-height slots in servers for 

third-party adapters certified by Cisco. It incorporates next-generation converged network adapter (CNA) 

technology from Cisco, providing Fibre Channel connectivity over low-cost twisted pair cabling with a bit error rate 

(BER) of 10

-15

 up to 30 meters. 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 1225T 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 1225T 

 

Features and Benefits 

● 

Stateless and agile: 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).