Deployment Guide

Solution overview
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5 Solution overview
Following is the solution overview for the deployment instructions provided in the rest of the document.
5.1 Architecture
The GPU hosts and client cluster architecture shown in Figure 14 is the reference architecture for the use
case described in the forthcoming section.
GPU hosts and client cluster architecture
5.2 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
GPUGPU
GPUGPUGPUGPU
4 x Node vSAN Client Cluster
Stack ID
Stack ID
Management network- VLAN 96
BitFusion DataPlane- VLAN 90
BitFusion DataPlane- VLAN 90
Management, vSAN, vMotion- VLAN 96, 10, 20