Connectors; Adapter Cards; Cisco Ucs Virtual Interface Card 1240; Cisco Ucs Virtual Interface Card 1280 - Cisco UCS 5108 Installation Manual

Adapter Cards

The power button and LED allows you to manually take a server temporarily out of service but leave it in a
state where it can be restarted quickly.

Connectors

A console port gives a direct connection to a blade server to allow operating system installation and other
management tasks to be done directly rather than remotely. The port uses the KVM dongle device included
in the chassis accessory kit. See
Adapter Cards
Depending on the model of server in question, one to three adapter cards will reside in each blade server,
providing failover connectivity to each FEX in the chassis. The following models are available, and others
are released on an ongoing basis:

Cisco UCS Virtual Interface Card 1240

The Cisco UCS Virtual Interface Card 1240 is a four-port 10 Gigabit Ethernet, Fibre Channel over Ethernet
(FCoE)-capable modular LAN on motherboard (mLOM) designed exclusively for the M3 generation of Cisco
UCS B-Series blade servers. When used in combination with an optional port expander, the Cisco UCS VIC
1240 capabilities can be expanded to either ports of 10 Gigabit Ethernet.
The Cisco UCS VIC 1240 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 1240 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.

Cisco UCS Virtual Interface Card 1280

The Cisco UCS Virtual Interface Card 1280 (UCS-VIC-M82-8P) is an eight-port 10 Gigabit Ethernet, Fibre
Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)-capable mezzanine card designed exclusively for Cisco UCS B-Series Blade
Servers. 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 Virtual Interface Card 1280 supports Cisco
Virtual Machine Fabric Extender (VM-FEX) technology, which extends the Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnect
ports to virtual machines, simplifying server virtualization deployment.

Cisco UCS M81KR Virtual Interface Card

The Cisco UCS M81KR Virtual Interface Card is a virtualization-optimized Fibre Channel over Ethernet
(FCoE) adapter card. The virtual interface card is a dual-port 10 Gigabit Ethernet adapter card that supports
up to 128 Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe) standards-compliant virtual interfaces that can
be dynamically configured so that both their interface type (network interface card [NIC] or host bus adapter
[HBA]) and identity (MAC address and worldwide name [WWNN]) are established using just-in-time
provisioning. In addition, the Cisco UCS M81KR supports network interface virtualization and Cisco VN-Link
technology.
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