Deployment Guide

Deployment and configuration
18 VMware vSphere Bitfusion on Dell EMC PowerEdge servers | Deployment guide
6 Deployment and configuration
The following section describes the step by step instructions to deploy Bitfusion appliances on the GPU hosts
and a quick test to showcase the GPU accessibility by a remote VM assuming all the pre-requisites are met.
6.1 Verify the GPU host hardware configuration
Follow the steps:
1. Login to iDRAC and browse to the Configuration > BIOS settings > System Profile Settings and verify
that the System Profile is set to Performance.
2. Browse to the Configuration > BIOS Settings > Integrated Devices and verify that the Memory
Mapped I/O above 4GB is set to Enabled.
6.2 Add the GPU hosts and client cluster to the vCenter inventory
Follow the steps:
1. Create folders for GPU Hosts and Client Cluster (TKG).
2. Add the hosts with GPUs to the GPU Hosts folder and the PowerEdge R740xd vSAN Ready Nodes
to the TKG folder.
3. Configure DRS, Hardware Acceleration and vSAN on the client cluster using Quickstart under the
configuration menu.
Adding GPU hosts and client cluster to the vCenter inventory.
6.3 Prepare and configure the GPU hosts and client cluster for
PVRDMA
Follow the steps:
1. Verify the listing of the RoCE v2 compatible RDMA network adapters under the RDMA Adapters
menu of each host. To do this, click on Configure > Networking > RDMA Adapters.
2. Create a distributed switch with the name Bitfusion using the New Distributed Switch wizard. Set
the switch version to v7.0.0 and configure two uplink ports.