Specifications

Cisco UCS B200 M3 Blade Server

SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIAL

The network adapter options are:

■ Cisco VIC 1340 or adapter. This adapter plugs into the VIC 1340/1240 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 in the mezzanine slot.

■ Cisco VIC 1380 or 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.

■ Cisco Port Expander Card. This I/O expander plugs into the mezzanine slot and enables full

second-generation VIC functionality with the VIC 1340 or 1240. Using the Port Expander Card

with the VIC 1340 or 1240 allows you to have 8 ports of 10Gb each (depending on the Fabric

Extender option chosen - see

Table 11 on page 22).

■ QLogic and Emulex adapters

■ 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 1340/1240 Adapter

The only adapter that can be plugged in to the VIC 1340 or 1240 slot is the VIC 1340 or 1240, Cisco-designed

PCIe based adapters that provide 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 1340 or 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 1380 or 1280 only supports up to 4x10Gb in this blade

because each mezzanine slot (or VIC 1340 or 1240 slot) only supports up to 4x10Gb.