Deployment Guide

Deployment and configuration
28 VMware vSphere Bitfusion on Dell EMC PowerEdge servers | Deployment guide
Setting the adapter type as PVRDMA the device protocol to RoCE v2
5. Under the Virtual Machine Options tab, select Advanced > Configuration parameters and then select
Edit Configuration. Edit the pciPassthru.64bitMMIOSizeGB parameter to 64.
• pciPassthru.64bitMMIOSizeGB= <n>, where n equals (num-cards * size-of-card-in-GB) rounded up to
NEXT power of 2. In this case, 2x 16 → 32, rounded to next power of 2 i.e. 64
6. Finish the configuration changes and power on the virtual machine. Wait for the virtual machine to
boot up and run through the initial configuration. This might take 10-15 minutes. A blue alert bar along
the top of vCenter (version 7) will appear indicating the Bitfusion plugin is successfully deployed.