Deployment Guide

Deployment and configuration
43 VMware vSphere Bitfusion on Dell EMC PowerEdge servers | Deployment guide
a. Deploy a new server virtual machine using a vSphere Bitfusion 2.5 OVF Template.
b. During deployment, enter the same hostname as of the primary vSphere Bitfusion 2.0 server.
c. While setting up the new virtual machine, add the same number of GPUs as of the vSphere
Bitfusion 2.0 server.
d. Add a guestinfo.bitfusion.server.host-id configuration parameter. The value of the parameter
should match the host ID of your primary server with vSphere Bitfusion 2.0 server that was listed
in the manifest.json file.
e. Enable the virtual machine as a vSphere Bitfusion server. For more information, see Add
Additional vSphere Bitfusion Servers.
f. Power on the virtual machine. Multiple virtual machines will be powered on in sequential order.
7. Delete the vSphere Bitfusion 2.0 server virtual machines. The servers in the cluster are now
successfully upgraded to vSphere Bitfusion 2.5.