The Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) CNA M72KR-E is a customized adapter based on Emulex’s OneConnect technology that gives Cisco UCS B-Series Blade Server customers a single, end-to-end view of their data center resources, offering a seamless transition to a fully unified and converged data center architecture. It delivers the following:

Flexibility and investment protection

• The Cisco UCS M72KR-E provides 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) connectivity with Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) support using a single driver architecture from Emulex
• Risk mitigation through compatibility with current Emulex adapter-based storage area network (SAN) environments and drivers
• Protects investments in existing server, network, storage and facilities assets
• Reduced total cost of ownership (TCO) through consolidation of LAN and SAN traffic over the same mezzanine card and fabric, reducing the overall number of network interface cards (NICs), host bus adapters (HBAs), cables and switches
• Integrated management with Cisco UCS Manager

Enterprise ready

• Allows customers to use existing Emulex HBA stacks and drivers for storage

Unified I/O

• Helps reduce TCO by consolidating the overall number of NICs, HBAs, cables and switches because LAN and SAN traffic run over the same mezzanine card and fabric

Network architecture

• Provides redundant path to fabric interconnect using dual 10GbE ports to the fabric carrying both Fibre Channel and Ethernet traffic

Unified management

• Through Cisco UCS Manager, automatically discovers blades and the mezzanine cards on the blades

Advanced error checking

• End-to-end data protection with hardware parity, CRC, ECC and other advanced error checking and correcting ensure that data is safe from corruption

More virtual machines per server

• Protocol offloads for TCP/IP and FCoE enable more VMs per server, providing greater cost savings for server virtualization