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- Type: mLOM
- Form Factor: Mezzanine
- Ports: 4 Ports
- Speed: 10GbE
- UCSB-MLOM-40G-01
The Cisco UCS VIC 1240 is a modular LAN-on-motherboard (mLOM) adapter designed for the M3 generation of Cisco UCS B-Series Blade Servers. It provides four 10-Gigabit Ethernet ports with Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) capabilities. The VIC 1240 supports a stateless, agile infrastructure that can present up to 256 PCIe-compliant interfaces to the host, dynamically configured as network interface cards (NICs) or host bus adapters (HBAs). It also integrates Cisco's Data Center VM-FEX technology, extending the UCS fabric interconnects directly to virtual machines, simplifying virtualization and improving manageability.
The Cisco VIC 1240 supports bandwidth scaling through the use of a Port Expander card. When this expander is added, the VIC 1240's capabilities grow from four to eight 10-Gigabit Ethernet ports, effectively doubling the throughput available to the server. This allows administrators to adapt to increasing data demands without replacing the core adapter, maintaining a flexible and cost-efficient network infrastructure.
- VIC 1280 Expander
- Cisco Series b200
- Cisco Series b200 M4
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Base Standard Capabilities
| Feature | Benefit |
|---|---|
| x16 PCIe generation-2 interfaces | Delivers greater throughput |
| 4 x 10-Gbps unified I/O | Delivers 40 Gbps to the server Helps reduce TCO by consolidating the overall number of NICs, HBAs, cables, and switches because LAN and SAN traffic runs over the same mezzanine card and fabric |
| Up to 8 x 10-Gbps unified I/O | Delivers 80 Gbps to the server when used with optional Port Expander |
| Up to 256 dynamic virtual adapters and interfaces | Creates fully functional, unique and independent PCIe adapters and interfaces (NICs or HBAs) without requiring single-root I/O virtualization (SR-IOV) support from OSs or hypervisors
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| 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 |
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| Centralized management | Enables the mezzanine card 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 |
| More than 900,000 I/O operations per second (IOPS) | Provides high I/O performance for demanding applications |
| Support for lossless Ethernet | Uses Priority Flow Control (PFC) to enable FCoE as part of the Cisco unified fabric |
| Broad OS and hypervisor support | Supports customer requirements for Microsoft Windows, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux, VMware vSphere and Citrix XenServer |
Spec Sheet 4
| Item | Specification |
|---|---|
| Standards |
10 Gigabit Ethernet, IEEE 802.3ae, IEEE 802.3x, IEEE 802.1q VLAN, IEEE 802.1p, IEEE 802.1Qaz, IEEE 802.1Qbb, prestandard IEEE 802.1BR jumbo frames up to 9 KB, Fibre Channel Protocol (FCP) (Small Computer System Interface [SCSI-FCP]), and T11 FCoE |
| Components | Cisco UCS custom application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) |
| Ports |
● 4 x 10-Gbps FCoE ports ● 8 x 10-Gbps FCoE ports, with optional Port Expander card |
| Connectivity | Cisco UCS midplane |
| Performance | 10-Gbps line rate per port |
| Management | Cisco UCS Manager Release 2.0(2) |
| Number of interfaces | 256 virtual interfaces (approximately 8 are reserved for internal use; other factors such as the OS and hypervisor may limit this number further) |
| Physical dimensions |
Length = 7.25 in. (18.4 cm) Width = 3.65 in. (9.3 cm) |
| Typical power |
12 Watts 15 watts with the Port Expander Card |
| Inlet operating temperature range | 50 to 95°F (10 to 35°C) |