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Data Sheet
Cisco UCS Virtual Interface Card 1285
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
A Cisco
®
innovation, the Cisco UCS Virtual Interface Card (VIC) 1285 is a dual-port Enhanced Quad Small Form-
Factor Pluggable (QSFP) 40 Gigabit Ethernet and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)-capable half-height PCI
Express (PCIe) card designed exclusively for Cisco UCS C-
Series Rack Servers. It incorporates Cisco’s next-
generation converged network adapter (CNA) technology, with a comprehensive feature set, providing investment
protection for future feature software releases. 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
1285 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.
Features and Benefits
The Cisco UCS VIC 1285 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 1).
Figure 1. Virtual Device Support on the Cisco UCS VIC 1285