Deployment Guide

Deployment and configuration
33 VMware vSphere Bitfusion on Dell EMC PowerEdge servers | Deployment guide
Bitfusion plug-in GUI for bitfusion-server-2 virtual machine
10. Login to the bitfusion-2 appliance using the same credentials used during deploying the appliance.
Run the following command to reload, restart and edit the bitfusion-manager service file:
sudo vi /usr/lib/systemd/system/bitfusion-manager.service
Add the line Environment=BF_IB_GID_INDEX=1 at the end of the [Service] section
11. Use the following commands to first save the file, and then restart the bitfusion-manager service for
the changes to take effect:
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl restart bitfusion-manager
6.8 Deploy the OVA to create the bitfusion-server-3 virtual machine
Follow the steps:
1. Select the appliance OVA file, bitfusion-server-2.0.0-11.ova.
2. Select the folder and provide the name for the first appliance bitfusion-server-3.
3. Select the GPU host PowerEdge R740xd. Review the details and proceed to select the local NVMe
based datastore.
4. Select the port group (mgmt) from the dropdown for the management traffic that connects to
vCenter.
5. Verify the network adapter 1 settings:
• Hostname–bitfusion3
• IPv4 address–100.71.x.x
• CIDR–21
• MTU–9000
• Gateway–100.71.x.x
• DNS–100.71.x.x
• Search domain–oseadc.local
• NTP–100.71.x.x