Deployment Guide

Deployment and configuration
36 VMware vSphere Bitfusion on Dell EMC PowerEdge servers | Deployment guide
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl restart bitfusion-manager
6.10 Provide client cluster access to GPU resources
Follow the steps:
1. Enable bitfusion on the powered off bitfusion client virtual machine. To do this, select Actions >
Bitfusion > Enable. Select the option For a client, this will allow users to run Bitfusion
workloads radio button and click on ENABLE
2. Power on the virtual machine, create a user group with the name bitfusion and add all users that
need access to GPU resources to this user group.
3. Install the InfiniBand packages and reload pvrdma driver using the following commands:
yum groupinstall "Infiniban Support" –y
rmmod vmw_pvrdma
modprobe vmw_pvrdma
ibv_devinfo
4. Export the environment variable BF_IB_GID_INDEX and add the following line to the bash profile file
for this setting to persist across reboots:
export BF_IB_GID_INDEX=1
5. Install the bitfusion client rpm, bitfusion-client-centos7-2.0.0-11.x86_64.rpm
Installing the bitfusion-client-centos7-2.0.0-11.x86_64.rpm file
6. Run Bitfusion commands to list all the GPUs available on the GPU server cluster by using the
command:
bitfusion – list_gpus