The Cisco UCS Virtual Interface Card 1227 offers a modular LAN on Motherboard (mLOM) adapter. The mLOM slot can be used to install a Cisco VIC without consuming a PCIe slot. This provides greater I/O expandability.

A Cisco innovation the Cisco UCS Virtual Interface Card (VIC) 1227 is a dual-port Enhanced Small Form-Factor Pluggable (SFP+) 10 Gigabit Ethernet and Fiber Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)-capable PCI Express (PCIe) modular LAN on motherboard (mLOM) adapter. It is designed exclusively for the M4 generation of Cisco UCS C-series rack servers and the C3160 dense storage servers.

• Slot Type - PCI-Express 2.0.
• Contents - Adapter documentation.
• Ports/Connectors - (2) RJ-45 (10GbE).
• Networking Protocol - 10 Gigabit Ethernet 10Gb Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FcoE).