Deployment Guide

Deployment and configuration
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3. Create pvrdma as a new distributed portgroup pvrdma using the New Distributed Port Group
wizard under the Bitfusion distributed switch created in the previous step. Set the Port Binding to
ephemeral and VLAN to 90.
4. Create VMKernel port for PVRDMA on all hosts by clicking on Configure > Networking > VMkernel
Adapters > Add Networking wizard. Create vmk1 on the GPU hosts and then create vmk3 on the
client cluster.
5. Assign the created Bitfusion distributed switch to the pvrdma port group.
6. Set MTU to 9000 and set the TCP/IP stack to Default.
7. Assign the IPv4 address to static IP in the 172.16.6.x/24 subnet.
Creating the VMKernel port for PVRDMA on all hosts
6.3.1 Tag a VMkernel adapter for PVRDMA
Follow the steps:
1. Navigate to the host on the vSphere web client.
2. Click on Configure > System > Advanced System Settings > Edit
3. Locate Net.PVRDMAvmknic from the list and click on Edit
4. Enter the value vmk1 on the GPU hosts and vmk3 on Client cluster hosts and click OK to complete
tagging the VMkernel adapter.