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

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. 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. 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. 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.