The Cisco UCS Virtual Interface Card (VIC) 1400 series extends the network fabric directly to both servers and virtual machines so that a single connectivity mechanism can be used to connect both physical and virtual servers with the same level of visibility and control. Cisco VICs provide complete programmability of the Cisco UCS I/O infrastructure, with the number and type of I/O interfaces configurable with a zero-touch model. The Cisco UCS VIC 1467 is a quad-port, small form-factor, pluggable mLOM card designed for the M6 generation of Cisco UCS C-series rack servers. The card supports 10/25Gbps Ethernet or FCoE. The card can present PCIe standards-compliant interfaces to the host, and these can be dynamically configured as either NICs or HBA.
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 NIC technology, delivering low latency 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.
Centralized management
Enables the mezzanine in B-Series to be centrally managed and configured by Cisco UCS manager.
Network architecture
Provides a redundant path to the fabric interconnect using hardware-based fabric failover.
