The Cisco UCS Virtual Interface Card (VIC) 1385 is a Cisco great solution. 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) card is designed exclusively for Cisco UCS C-Series Rack Servers. The card supports 40 Gigabit Ethernet and Fiber Channel over Ethernet (FCoE). It incorporates Cisco's converged network adapter (CNA) technology and offers a comprehensive feature set, providing investment protection for 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.
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, 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.
Network interface virtualization
Each PCIe interface created on the VIC is associated with an interface on the Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnect, providing complete network separation for each virtual cable between a PCIe device on the VIC and the interface on the Fabric Interconnect.
Low-latency connectivity
Supports usNIC technology, delivering latency as low as 1.2 microseconds in back-to-back VIC connections.
Cisco SingleConnect technology
A single unified network: the same network brings LAN, SAN, and management connectivity to each server.
Cisco Data Center VM-FEX technology
Unifies virtual and physical networking in a single infrastructure. Provides virtual machine visibility from the physical network and a consistent network operating model for physical and virtual servers. Enables configurations and policies to follow the virtual machine during virtual machine migration.
