Cisco Unified Computing System Adapters

Converge LAN and SAN traffic with one adapter

Whether you are using blade, rack, or storage servers from Cisco, the UCS Virtual Interface Card (VIC) provides optimal connectivity. Cisco also offers other adapters to meet your needs like PCIe flash storage and GPUs.

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Adapters

UCS 1400 Series VICs for blades

UCS VIC 1440
UCS VIC 1480
Two ports; 2 x 40 Gbps
VXLAN, NVGRE, SR-IOV, DPDK

UCS 1400 Series VICs for racks

UCS VIC 1455, UCS VIC 1457, VIC 1495, VIC 1497
Two or four ports
Up to 100 Gbps
VXLAN, NVGRE, SR-IOV, DPDK

UCS 1300 Series VICs for racks

UCS VIC 1385
UCS VIC 1387
Two ports; 2 x 40-Gbps QSFP+
VXLAN, NVGRE, RDMA, usNIC, NetFlow, and SMB Direct

UCS 1300 Series VICs for blades

UCS VIC 1340
UCS VIC 1380
Two ports; 2 x 40 Gbps or dual 4 x 10 Gbps
VXLAN, NVGRE, RDMA, usNIC, NetFlow, and SMB Direct

UCS 1200 Series VICs for racks

B-Series mezzanine adapters

PCIe Flash adapters
GPU adapters

C-Series PCIe adapters

PCIe Flash adapters
GPU adapters
Gigabit NICs
Fibre Channel HBAs

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Features

Simple computing with SingleConnect

Cisco SingleConnect unifies LAN, SAN, and systems management into one simplified link for rack servers, blade servers, and virtual machines.

Eliminate hypervisor switch overhead

Cisco Virtual Machine Fabric Extender (VM-FEX) collapses virtual and physical networking into a single infrastructure, eliminating software-based hypervisor switches.

Ultra-low-latency Ethernet

Get lower latency than TCP/IP provides. Cisco offers usNIC for our second- and third-generation virtual interface cards (VlC).

Accelerate your success

With Cisco Services, you’ll see faster time to value, comprehensive adoption, and optimized policies.

Simpler is always better

"Having everything with one configuration with a unified fabric was extremely appealing. Multiple fabrics are a lot more costly and can be difficult to manage, so having the unified fabric option was ideal."
Hilary Schrey
System Administrator, Florida Institute of Technology Aviation