Adapter FEX and VM Fex

Hi!
I have a questions about Cisco Adapter FEX and VM Fex.
As i understand, Cisco Adapter FEX gives multiple vNIC on one mezzanine card, and each of them appears as virtual port on Fabric Interconnect.
Also, same thing for VM-FEX, each VM NIC appears as virtual port on Fabric Interconnect.
Am i right?
Thank you!

Adaptor FEX is I/O adaptor virtualization, which is agnostic to the OS and therefore works in virtualized as well as non virtualized environments.
VM-FEX (also called Hypervisor Bypass) is available for different Hypervisors
Cisco UCS Manager VM-FEX for Hyper-V CLI Configuration Guide, Release 2.2
Cisco UCS Manager VM-FEX for KVM CLI Configuration Guide, Release 2.2
Cisco UCS Manager VM-FEX for VMware CLI Configuration Guide, Release 2.2
Cisco UCS Manager VM-FEX for Hyper-V GUI Configuration Guide, Release 2.2
Cisco UCS Manager VM-FEX for KVM GUI Configuration Guide, Release 2.2
Cisco UCS Manager VM-FEX for VMware GUI Configuration Guide, Release 2.2
Cisco UCS Manager VM-FEX for Hyper-V CLI Configuration Guide, Release 2.1
Cisco UCS Manager VM-FEX for KVM CLI Configuration Guide, Release 2.1
Cisco UCS Manager VM-FEX for VMware CLI Configuration Guide, Release 2.1
Cisco UCS Manager VM-FEX for Hyper-V GUI Configuration Guide, Release 2.1
Cisco UCS Manager VM-FEX for KVM GUI Configuration Guide, Release 2.1
Cisco UCS Manager VM-FEX for VMware GUI Configuration Guide, Release 2.1
Cisco UCS Manager VM-FEX for KVM CLI Configuration Guide
Cisco UCS Manager VM-FEX for KVM GUI Configuration Guide
Cisco UCS Manager VM-FEX for VMware CLI Configuration Guide
Cisco UCS Manager VM-FEX for VMware GUI Configuration Guide
example VM-FEX for VMware ESX
VM-FEX (previously known as VN-link) is a method to extend the network fabric completely down to the VMs. With VM-FEX, the Fabric Interconnects handle switching for the ESXi host's VMs. UCSM utilizes the vCenter dVS Application Programming Interfaces (API) to this end. Therefore, VM-FEX shows as a dVS in the ESXi host.
There are many benefits to VM-FEX:
Reduced CPU overhead on the ESX host
Faster performance
VMware DirectPath I/O with vMotion support
Network management moved up to the FIs rather than on the ESXi host
Visibility into vSphere with UCSM

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Hi Eric
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If i design a VM-FEX, is there must have nexus 1000V or not ?
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I am a new in virtulaization world and I need to know what is the relation between Cisco Nexus 1000v and Cisco VM-FEX?, and when to use VM-FEX and when to use Nexus 1000v.
Regards

Ahmed,
Sorry for taking this long to get back to you.
Nexus 1000v is a virtualized switch and as such will require that any traffic coming in or leaving the VM will first need to pass through the virtualization layer, therefore causing a minimum delay that for some applications (VMs) can be catastrophic enough that may mean too much delay.
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