Deployment Guide

Deployment and configuration
39 VMware vSphere Bitfusion on Dell EMC PowerEdge servers | Deployment guide
7.11 Improved support for multiple networks
During the deployment process of a vSphere Bitfusion server, you must configure at least Network Adapter 1
as it is used for management and data traffic. Network Adapter 2, Network Adapter 3 and Network Adapter 4
are all optional and are only used for data traffic. With vSphere Bitfusion 3.0, you can now add network
interfaces for data traffic management after the deployment process of a server.
Follow the steps:
1. In the vSphere Client, right-click on the virtual machine of a vSphere Bitfusion server and select Edit
Settings.
2. On the Virtual Hardware tab, click the Add New Device button.
3. Under Network, select Network Adapter.
4. From the New Network drop-down menu, select a network to which the virtual machine can be
connected.
5. Expand the New Network section and from the Adapter Type drop-down menu, select the network
adapter to which the virtual machine can be assigned and click OK.
Note: vSphere Bitfusion supports VMXNET3 and PVRDMA adapters.
7.12 Provide client cluster access to GPU resources
Follow the steps:
1. Enable bitfusion on the powered off bitfusion client virtual machine. To do this, select Actions >
Bitfusion > Enable. Select the option For a client, this will allow users to run Bitfusion
workloads radio button and click on ENABLE
2. Power on the virtual machine, create a user group with the name bitfusion and add all users that
need access to GPU resources to this user group.
3. Install the InfiniBand packages and reload pvrdma driver using the following commands:
yum groupinstall "Infiniban Support" –y
rmmod vmw_pvrdma
modprobe vmw_pvrdma
ibv_devinfo
4. Export the environment variable BF_IB_GID_INDEX and add the following line to the bash profile file
for this setting to persist across reboots:
export BF_IB_GID_INDEX=1
5. Install the bitfusion client rpm, bitfusion-client-centos7-2.0.0-11.x86_64.rpm
Install the bitfusion-client-centos7-2.0.0-11.x86_64.rpm file