Network Interface Cards

Cisco VIC 15427 and 15428

The Cisco UCS VIC 15427 and 15428 (Figure 8) are a quad-port small-form-factor pluggable (SFP+/SFP28/SFP56) mLOM card designed for Cisco UCS C-series M6/M7 rack servers. The card supports 10/25/50-Gbps Ethernet or FCoE. The card can present PCIe standards-compliant interfaces to the host, and these can be dynamically configured as either NICs or HBAs.

The Cisco UCS VIC 15427 is functionally equivalent to the 15428, but incorporates secure boot technology.

When a UCS rack server with VIC 15427 or 15428 is connected to a fabric interconnect (FI-6536/6400/6300), the VIC 15428 is provisioned through Cisco Intersight^™Managed Mode (IMM) or Cisco UCS Manager (UCSM) policies. When the UCS rack server with VIC 15427 or 15428 is connected to a ToR switch such as Cisco Nexus^®9000 Series, the VIC adapter is provisioned through the Cisco Integrated Management Controller (IMC) or Intersight policies for a standalone server.

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FEATURES

• Dual-port 25G/10G connectivity for OCP servers

• Backward compatibility with 10GbE infrastructure for complete investment protection

• x8 PCI Express® (PCIe®) 3.0 (8GTps) support

• Accelerate the most demanding telco NFV workloads with the Cavium data plane development kit (DPDK) high-speed packet processingengine

• Orchestrate and manage hyperscale OpenStack® deployments with Cavium cloud-enabled management framework

• Universal remote direct memory access (RDMA) technologies-RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE), RoCEv2, and Internet wide area RDMA protocol (iWARP)

• VXLAN, NVGRE, GRE, and GENEVE tunneling offloads

• Network boot support

• iSCSI remote boot
• Preboot Execution Environment (PXE) 2.0

• MSI and MSI-X support

• IPv4 and IPv6 offloads

• PCI-SIG® single root I/O virtualization (SR-IOV) support

• Comprehensive stateless offloads

• Receive side scaling (RSS) Transmit side scaling (TSS)

• Jumbo frame support up to 9,600 bytes

• Network teaming, failover, and load balancing:

• Switch-independent teaming modes
• Switch-dependent teaming modes-link aggregation control protocol (LACP) and generic trunking

• Data center bridging (DCB)