Cisco VIC Advantages:
- VIC cards are managed by CIMC, the VIC it has extra copper pins on the board, so it can be managed via the CIMC without the server being powered on, unlike generic interfaces on other servers which require the server to be powered on and a keystroke hit.
- FIP mode (Fibrechannel initialization mode) allows the port to do FCoE
- VNTAG mode = Adapter FEX mode / NIV Mode
- VIC firmware can be managed out of band on CMIC. It’s not reliant on the OS, it can be done out of band. Flash is actually on the adapter, 2 locations, 1 for the active and one for the backup firmware.
- This means firmware can be put on a adapter without affecting the operation, just put a new firmware in the backup flash location then change the firmware over to make it active later on.
- Firmware is loaded per card, so if there are 2 cards in the UCS server you need to upload the new firmware to each VIC
- Classical Ethernet mode is IEEE 10Gig Ethernet, it can be used to connect to any vendors 10 Gig switches
- vNICs can be swapped between the physical uplink ports. For example if a switch on uplink port 1 goes down the vNICs can be swapped over to port
- Classic Ethernet mode the failover is manual
- Adapter FEX can be automatic
- VICs are only available in Cisco servers, the reason is because there is no option ROM, it can only be configured via CIMC
Recording Links:
WebEx recording: http://tools.cisco.com/pecx/login?URL=searchCourse%3FcourseId%3D00050777
PDF: http://tools.cisco.com/pecx/login?URL=searchCourse%3FcourseId%3D00050781
MP4: http://tools.cisco.com/pecx/login?URL=searchCourse%3FcourseId%3D00050848
PDF: http://tools.cisco.com/pecx/login?URL=searchCourse%3FcourseId%3D00050781
MP4: http://tools.cisco.com/pecx/login?URL=searchCourse%3FcourseId%3D00050848
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