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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)
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:
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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).