Deployment Guide

Executive summary
5 VMware vSphere Bitfusion on Dell EMC PowerEdge servers | Deployment guide
Executive summary
Modern computational requirements have evolved and diverged with the wide acceptance and use of
containers and virtualization. Today’s workloads are presenting challenges to the CPU-centric paradigm
which has been a key determinant of customers' server performance and utility needs. General purpose
CPUs no longer adequately handle these new workloads, whether they are artificial intelligence, machine
learning or virtual desktops. However, CPU power can be enhanced with add-in graphics processing units
(GPUs). GPUs leverage thousands of computing cores instead of the tens of cores that general purpose
CPUs can address. While the cost of putting dedicated GPU hardware into every server is uneconomical,
VMware vSphere Bitfusion on PowerEdge servers enables network delivery of these pooled resources to any
properly configured client node. With Bitfusion built into the well-known vSphere infrastructure, administrators
can optimize their use and increase the utilization of these expensive resources. This delivers immense value
to those networked nodes which require powerful GPUs to execute massively parallel workloads.