- x16 PCIe interfaces
- Unified I/O
- Up to 128 dynamic virtual adapters and interfaces
- Cisco VN-Link technology
- Centralized management
- Network architecture
- More than 600,000 I/O operations per second (IOPS)
- Support for lossless Ethernet
- Optimization for VMware
- Broad O/S and hypervisor support
The Cisco UCS M81KR Virtual Interface Card (VIC) is a virtualization-optimized Fiber Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) mezzanine card designed for use with Cisco UCS B-Series Blade Servers. The VIC is a dual-port 10 Gigabit Ethernet mezzanine card that supports up to 128 Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe) standards-compliant virtual interfaces that can be dynamically configured so that both their interface type are established using just-in-time provisioning. In addition, the Cisco UCS M81KR supports Cisco VN-Link technology, which adds server-virtualization intelligence to the network.