The Cisco UCS VIC 15235 (Figure 15) is a dual-port quad small-form-factor pluggable (QSFP/QSFP28/QSFP56) PCIe card designed for Cisco UCS C-series M6/M7/M8 rack servers. The card supports 40/100/200-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.
When a UCS rack server with VIC 15235 is connected to a fabric interconnect (FI-6536/6300), the VIC 15235 is provisioned through Cisco Intersight Managed Mode (IMM) or Cisco UCS Manager (UCSM) policies. When the UCS rack server with VIC 15235 is connected to a ToR switch such as Cisco Nexus 9000 Series, the VIC 15235 is provisioned through t