Refurbished Cisco Host Bus Adapters

Here you will find our assortment of refurbished Cisco Host Bus Adapters.

Refurbished Cisco host bus adapters (HBAs) and Virtual Interface Cards (VICs) for UCS servers - including Cisco VIC 1225, VIC 1227, VIC 1240, VIC 1280, VIC 1340, VIC 1380, and VIC 1385 converged network adapters, plus Emulex and QLogic fibre channel HBAs in Cisco branding.

The Cisco Virtual Interface Card (VIC) is central to the UCS architecture. Unlike conventional NICs or HBAs, the VIC presents multiple virtual interfaces - Ethernet and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) - to the operating system, all managed through UCS Service Profiles. This means the number of visible network and storage interfaces, their configuration, and their bandwidth allocation can be changed through UCS Manager without touching the physical server. The VIC is what makes UCS Stateless Computing work in practice.

A failed VIC in a UCS blade or rack server typically results in complete loss of network and storage connectivity. Sourcing a tested refurbished Cisco VIC through Epoka restores full connectivity at a fraction of new OEM cost. Compatibility between VIC model, server generation, and UCS fabric interconnect version matters - Epoka's team can advise on the correct VIC for your specific UCS deployment.

For environments using Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) to connect UCS to SAN storage, the VIC handles both Ethernet and FCoE traffic - making the VIC effectively both the NIC and the HBA in those configurations.

See also Cisco Servers, Cisco I/O Modules, and Cisco Memory Modules.

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