Deployment Guide

Table of contents
4 VMware vSphere Bitfusion on Dell EMC PowerEdge servers | Deployment guide
7.3 Prepare and configure the GPU hosts and client cluster for PVRDMA ............................................................ 20
7.3.1 Tag a VMkernel adapter for PVRDMA ............................................................................................................. 21
7.3.2 Add and manage hosts on the Bitfusion distributed switch .............................................................................. 22
7.4 Deploy the Open Virtual Appliance (OVA) to create the bitfusion-server-1 virtual machine ............................ 23
7.5 Edit the bitfusion-server-1 hardware settings ................................................................................................... 27
7.6 Deploy the Open Virtual Appliance (OVA) to create the bitfusion-server-2 virtual machine ............................ 32
7.7 Edit the bitfusion-server-2 virtual machine hardware settings .......................................................................... 33
7.8 Deploy the OVA to create the bitfusion-server-3 virtual machine .................................................................... 35
7.9 Edit the bitfusion-server-3 virtual machine hardware settings .......................................................................... 36
7.10 Alternate method of installing an additional Bitfusion server ............................................................................ 38
7.11 Improved support for multiple networks ........................................................................................................... 39
7.12 Provide client cluster access to GPU resources .............................................................................................. 39
7.13 Support for remote clients and bare-metal server ............................................................................................ 41
7.14 Support for backup and restore ........................................................................................................................ 42
8 Getting help ................................................................................................................................................................ 44
8.1 Contacting Dell EMC ........................................................................................................................................ 44
8.2 Documentation resources ................................................................................................................................. 44
8.3 VMware Hands-On-Labs (HOLs) ..................................................................................................................... 44
8.4 Documentation feedback .................................................................................................................................. 44