Cisco UCS Virtual Interface Card 1285 - Network adapter - PCIe - 40 Gigabit QSFP x 2 - for UCS C22 M3, C24 M3, C240 M3,

Cisco UCS Virtual Interface Card 1285 - Network adapter - PCIe - 40 Gigabit QSFP x 2 - for UCS C22 M3, C24 M3, C240 M3, C240 M4, C460 M2, C460 M4, Managed C240 M3, Smart Play 8 C240

• Cisco usNIC technology
• Higher performance
• Better bandwidth
• Advanced features

The Cisco UCS Virtual Interface Card (VIC) 1285 offers dual-port enhanced Quad Small Form-Factor Pluggable (QSFP) 40 gigabit Ethernet and Fiber Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) in a half-height PCI Express (PCIe) card designed exclusively for Cisco Unified Computing (UCS) C-Series rack servers. The VIC 1285 adapter provides acceleration for operational modes introduced by server virtualization. It brings superior flexibility, performance, and bandwidth to the UCS rack-mount servers.

• Cisco usNIC technology
  Cisco usNIC is a low-latency interface on top of Cisco UCS VIC 1285. The interface consists of a set of software libraries that can enable a data path bypassing the kernel.
• Higher performance
  As a UCS managed adapter, the VIC 1285 supports PCI Express (PCIe) virtual devices, and either virtual network interface cards (vNICs) or virtual host bus adapters (vHBAs). It offers high I/O operations per second (IOPS), support for lossless Ethernet. In a non-UCS managed environment, the VIC 1285 will support up to 16 vNICs and two vHBAs.
• Better bandwidth
  A PCIe Generation 2 x16 interface helps assure optimal bandwidth to the host for network-intensive applications with a redundant path to the fabric interconnect.
• Advanced features
  VICs support advanced features such as Netflow for network traffic modeling, and NetQueue for balancing and shaping virtual machine traffic loads. Accelerated Receive Flow Steering improves packet processing efficiency.