vSphere license required for Cisco VIC 1225

[gcanales]

Hello,

Does anyone knows the vSphere license requirements to use a Cisco UCS VIC 1225 PCI card? This one creates up to 256 virtual PCI devices to separate traffic inside the physical interface.

We are in the design part of the proyect and we are considering Standard licenses since it's a small deployment, I want to make sure this card does not require Enterprise Plus vSphere license cause maybe this card would need a distribuited switch

Thanks

[NealeC]

This card, or UCS in general, wouldn't need an enterprise plus license specifically.

DVS would only be used if you decided your design warranted it.

It would simplify switch management across your hosts by simply connecting uplinks from each host to the DVS.

The alternative is to manage each hosts' switch configuration manually (*some automation/management could be done via host profiles.........which......requires an enterprise plus license)

So if you are really going to use all those PCI devices as NICs (although I'd question why as you're really just carving up whatever bandwidth you have going from your VIC to your IOMs to your Chassis and ultimately the FICs) then why have so many vNICs in your Service Profile?

Does that answer your question? 🙂

Chris