Step 6 Choose Adapters - Cisco UCS B420 M4 Manual

STEP 6 CHOOSE ADAPTERS
The adapter offerings are:
Cisco Virtual Interface Cards (VICs)
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Cisco developed 1300 Series and 1200 Series Virtual Interface Cards (VICs) to provide flexibility
to create multiple NIC and HBA devices. The VICs also support adapter Fabric Extender and
Virtual Machine Fabric Extender technologies. The VIC features are listed here:
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Cisco UCS Storage Accelerator Adapters
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Cisco UCS Storage Accelerator adapters are designed specifically for the Cisco UCS B-series M4
blade servers and integrate seamlessly to allow improvement in performance and relief of I/O
bottlenecks.
Table 11 shows the supported adapters.
To help ensure that your operating system is compatible with the cards you have selected,
please check the Hardware Compatibility List at this URL:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps10477/prod_technical_reference_list.html
Cisco UCS B420 M4 Blade Server
1200 Series VICs enable advanced networking features including Netflow for
network statistics, and DPDK, USNIC for low-latency computing applications.
1300 Series VICs include all of the 1200 Series features plus additional
enhancements including network overlay offload support for NVGRE and VXLAN, and
RoCE services.
In addition, 1300 Series VICs support PCIe Gen 3.0 for greater bandwidth than 1200
Series VICs
Two Converged Network Adapter (CNA) ports, supporting both Ethernet and FCoE
Delivers 160 Gbs total I/O throughput to the server, for example:
• VIC 1240 supports 4 x 10 Gbs Unified I/O ports, Port Expander supports 4 x 10 Gbs
Unified I/O ports, and VIC 1280 supports 8 x 10 Gbs Unified ports, for a total of
160 Gbs (see Figure 26 on page
• VIC 1340 supports dual 4 x 10 Gbs Unified I/O ports, Port Expander enables
additional ports on the VIC 1340 to create either dual 4 x 10 Gbs or dual native
40G Unified I/O ports, and VIC 1380 supports 8 x 10 Gbs Unified ports, for a total
of 160 Gbs (see Figure 26 on page
Creates up to 256 fully functional unique and independent PCIe adapters and
interfaces (NICs or HBAs) without requiring single-root I/O virtualization (SR-IOV)
support from operating systems or hypervisors
Provides virtual machine visibility from the physical network and a consistent
network operations model for physical and virtual servers
Supports customer requirements for a wide range of operating systems and
hypervisors
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