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VICs for blade servers

VICs are available in the form factor of a mezzanine card. All new VICs provide dynamic virtual vNIC or vHBA interfaces for server-side connectivity. The latest Cisco 1300 VIC series can only support UCS 6200 and 6300 series Fabric Interconnects, whereas the Cisco 1200 VIC series can support UCS 6200 and 6100 series. In addition, 1300 series VICs support PCIe Gen 3.0 for greater bandwidth with the network offload support of NVGRE and VXLAN for enhanced performance and can create 256 NICs or HBAs without requiring SR-IOV support from hypervisors or operating systems.

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