Deployment Guide
Solution overview
19 VMware vSphere Bitfusion on Dell EMC PowerEdge servers | Deployment guide
6.2 Component information
Hardware information that is used in this deployment guide.
Component
Description
Specification
PowerEdge 740xd
GPU Host
2 * Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 6242 CPU @ 2.80GHz
RAM 256GB
Mellanox ConnectX-4 LX 25GbE SFP
Boot Device Dell BOSS-S1 2*120GB SATA SSD
PowerEdge C4140
GPU Host
2 * Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 6148 CPU @ 2.40GHz
RAM 384GB
Mellanox ConnectX-5 LX 25GbE SFP
Boot Device Dell BOSS-S1 2*120GB SATA SSD
vSAN RN 740xd
Client Cluster
4 Identical Nodes in a cluster
2 * Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 6242 CPU @ 2.80GHz
Boot Device Dell BOSS-S1 2*120GB SATA SSD
Intel(R) 10GbE 4P X710 rNDC
Mellanox ConnectX-5 LX 25GbE SFP
2 x 1.8TB GB SAS SSD 6 x 1.2 TB SATA SSD
NVIDIA T4
Accelerator
NVIDIA Turing
Tensor cores: 320
GPU Memory: 16GB GDDR6 300 GB/sec
System Interface: x16 PCIe Gen3
NVIDIA V100 PCIe
Accelerator
NVIDIA Volta
Tensor cores: 640
GPU Memory: 16GB HBM2 900 GB/sec
System Interface: x16 PCIe Gen3
NVIDIA V100 SXM2
Accelerator
NVIDIA Volta
Tensor cores: 640
GPU Memory: 16GB HBM2 900 GB/sec
System Interface: NVIDIA NVLink
S5248F
Network Switch
2 * ToR configured with VLT
Dell Networking OS10
Client VM
Client
CentOS 7 (64bit)
4 vCPUs, 64GB RAM
2* network adpaters
Hypervisor
GPU Host
VMware ESXi, 7.0.0, 15843807 or later
vSphere Enterprise Plus with Add-on for Bit fusion
Hypervisor
Client host
VMware ESXi, 7.0.0, 15843807 or later
VSphere Enterprise Plus
6.3 VLANs and IP subnet information.
VLANs and IP subnet information
VLAN ID
Function
Subnet
Gateway
96
Management
100.71.x.x/21
100.71.x.x
90
PVRDMA
172.16.6.0/24
10
vSAN
172.16.4.0/24
20
vMotion
172.16.5.0/24










