Deployment Guide

Deployment and configuration
21 VMware vSphere Bitfusion on Dell EMC PowerEdge servers | Deployment guide
Adding and managing hosts on the Bitfusion distributed switch.
6.4 Deploy the Open Virtual Appliance (OVA) to create the bitfusion-
server-1 virtual machine
Follow the steps:
1. Use Deploy OVF Template action on the C4140 to deploy the first appliance.
2. Select the appliance OVA file, bitfusion-server-2.0.0-11.ova.
3. Select the folder and provide the name for the first appliance bitfusion-server-1.
4. Select the GPU Host C4140, review the details and proceed to select the NFS datastore for
appliance storage.
5. Select port group (mgmt) from the dropdown menu for the management traffic that connects to
vCenter.
Note: The OVA gives you an option to configure a single destination network during the OVF deployment. We
need to configure the additional network for pvrdma when customizing the template later.
6. Provide the hostname bitfusion1 that has an entry in the DNS server for name resolution.
7. Extract the vCenter GUID from the vSphere client URL found in the navigation bar of the browser.
8. Enter the vCenter URL, https://100.71.x.x, vCenter username [e-mail] and
password for the administrator account.