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SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIAL
The network adapter options are:
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Cisco VIC 1240 adapter. This adapter plugs into the VIC 1240 slot and is natively capable of
4x10Gb ports and 256 PCIe devices. The capabilities of the adapter can easily be expanded
by using the Port Expander Card for VIC 1240 in the mezzanine slot.
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Cisco VIC 1280 Mezzanine adapter. This adapter plugs into the mezzanine slot and is capable
of 4x10Gb ports in the UCS B200 M3 server, depending on the Fabric Extender chosen (see
Table 11 on page 22
) and 256 PCIe devices.
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Cisco Port Expander Card for VIC 1240. This I/O expander plugs into the mezzanine slot and
enables full second-generation VIC functionality with the VIC 1240. Using the Port Expander
Card for VIC 1240 with the VIC 1240 allows you to have 8 ports of 10Gb each (depending on
the Fabric Extender option chosen - see
Table 11 on page 22
).
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QLogic and Emulex adapters
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Cisco Storage Accelerators. These flash storage devices do not have network connectivity;
instead they provide independent high-speed storage controlled by CPU 2. See
Table 9 on
page 20
for descriptions.
VIC 1240 Adapter
The only adapter that can be plugged in to the VIC 1240 slot is the VIC 1240, a Cisco-designed PCIe based
adapter that provides up to eight (depending on the Fabric Extender option chosen) 10 Gigabit Data Center
Ethernet (DCE) network interfaces.
There are two groups of four ports on the VIC 1240. Two ports of the first group and two ports of the second
group are wired through the UCS 5108 Blade Server chassis to Fabric Extender A and Fabric Extender B. The
other two ports of each group are wired to the mezzanine slot, as represented in
Figure 9
.
NOTE:
The bandwidth/port count on these adapters depends on the Fabric
Extender. For example, the VIC 1280 only supports up to 4x10Gb in this blade
because each mezzanine slot (or VIC 1240 slot) only supports up to 4x10Gb.
