Cisco Virtual Interface Card (Vic) Considerations - Cisco APIC M3 Installation And Service Manual

Cisco Virtual Interface Card (VIC) Considerations

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d) Position the PCIe riser over its two sockets on the motherboard and over the two chassis alignment channels.
Figure 36: PCIe Riser Alignment Features
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e) Carefully push down on both ends of the PCIe riser to fully engage its two connectors with the two sockets on the
motherboard.
f) Replace the top cover to the server.
g) Replace the server in the rack, replace cables, and then fully power on the server by pressing the Power button.
Cisco Virtual Interface Card (VIC) Considerations
This section describes VIC card support and special considerations for this server.
Note If you use the Cisco Card NIC mode, you must also make a VIC Slot setting that matches where your VIC is
installed. The options are Riser1, Riser2, and Flex-LOM. See
page 19
Table 8: VIC Support and Considerations in This Server
VIC
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PCIe slot 2 rear-panel opening
Blue riser handle
for more information about NIC modes.
How Many Slots That
Supported in Support VICs
Server
2 Riser alignment features in chassis
NIC Mode and NIC Redundancy Settings, on
Primary Slot For Primary Slot For
Cisco UCS Manager Cisco Card NIC
Integration Mode
Maintaining the Server
Minimum Cisco
IMC Firmware