Cisco Cisco UCS B200 M2 Blade Server Hoja De Datos
Cisco UCS B460 M4 Blade Server (with Intel® Xeonl® E7 v4 CPU)
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CONFIGURING the SERVER
STEP 6
CHOOSE ADAPTERS
The adapter offerings are:
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Cisco Virtual Interface Cards (VICs)
Cisco has developed 1300 Series Virtual Interface Cards (VICs) to provide flexibility to create
multiple NIC and HBA devices. The VICs also support adapter Fabric Extender and Virtual
Machine Fabric Extender technologies. The VIC features are listed here:
multiple NIC and HBA devices. The VICs also support adapter Fabric Extender and Virtual
Machine Fabric Extender technologies. The VIC features are listed here:
— 1300 Series VICs include all of the 1200 Series features plus additional
enhancements including network overlay offload support for NVGRE and VXLAN, and
RoCE services.
RoCE services.
— In addition, 1300 Series VICs support PCIe Gen 3.0 for greater bandwidth than 1200
Series VICs
— Two Converged Network Adapter (CNA) ports, supporting both Ethernet and FCoE
— Delivers 80 Gbps total I/O throughput to the server
• VIC 1340 supports dual 4x 10 Gbps Unified I/O ports or 2x40 (native) Gbps Unified
I/O ports
— Creates up to 256 fully functional unique and independent PCIe adapters and
interfaces (NICs or HBAs) without requiring single-root I/O virtualization (SR-IOV)
support from operating systems or hypervisors
support from operating systems or hypervisors
— Provides virtual machine visibility from the physical network and a consistent
network operations model for physical and virtual servers
— Supports customer requirements for a wide range of operating systems and
hypervisors
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Cisco UCS Storage Accelerator Adapters
Cisco UCS Storage Accelerator adapters are designed specifically for the Cisco UCS B-series M4
blade servers and integrate seamlessly to allow improvement in performance and relief of I/O
bottlenecks.
blade servers and integrate seamlessly to allow improvement in performance and relief of I/O
bottlenecks.
NOTE: There are three slots in each of the two Blade Modules of the server. One is a
dedicated slot for the VIC 1340 adapter only and the other two other Cisco adapters.
dedicated slot for the VIC 1340 adapter only and the other two other Cisco adapters.
shows which adapters plug into each of the three slots.