Deployment Guide

Pre-deployment requirements and introduction to new features
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Improved management of bare-metal server workloads
5.3.3 Improved health checks
In earlier releases of vSphere Bitfusion, health checks are performed with a simple command-line parameter.
With the integration of vCenter, a new graphical user interface is introduced to display the command-line
outputs within a dialog box. A new method is introduced for suppressing the health checks when it is not
compatible with your server environment configuration or if the health checks do not reflect the server
environment's current state. For more information on the improvements made to health checks, see VMware
vSphere Bitfusion 2.5 release article.
5.4 Bitfusion server and client software
Bitfusion OVA is a VMware appliance prepackaged with GPU software and services. Bitfusion client package
runs on the virtual machines where, the applications make use of the GPU resources. To download the OVA
and client package, see the Download VMware vSphere Bitfusion page after logging into My VMware
account.
5.5 vCenter
Once the Bitfusion server OVA is deployed, select Bitfusion from the vCenter menu. vCenter Server 7.0 lists
the components connected to the server once the GPU hosts and client clusters are connected. By doing this,
embedded platform services are installed on the client cluster. To download the vCenter Server Appliance,
see the Download VMware vSphere page.
Note: You can download the vCenter Server Appliance from the Download VMware vSphere page after
logging in to My VMware account.