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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
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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).