Deployment Guide

Component overview
9 VMware vSphere Bitfusion on Dell EMC PowerEdge servers | Deployment guide
3 Component overview
This section briefly describes the components that support VMware vSphere Bitfusion and their key
capabilities to help you deploy the software.
3.1 DELL EMC PowerEdge R740xd server
The PowerEdge R740xd server provides the benefit of scalable storage performance and data set
processing. This 2U, 2-socket platform brings you scalability and performance to adapt to a variety of
applications. This platform could be configured with up to 3x V100 GPUs or 6x NVIDIA T4 GPUs, but also
offers the flexibility to support additional configurations such as 24x 2.5” NVMe drives and two NVIDIA GPUs.
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Key capabilities:
• 24 DIMM slots of DDR4 memory (RDIMM or LRDIMM)
• Up to 24 SAS or SATA SSD or hard drive and NVMe PCIe SSDs
• Boot device options such as BOSS
• Double wide GPUs, up to 300W each, or single wide GPUs, up to 150W each
Front view of a Dell EMC PowerEdge R740xd
Rear view of a Dell EMC PowerEdge R740xd
3.2 DELL EMC PowerEdge C4140 server
PowerEdge C4140 is an incredibly dense purpose-built rack server designed to handle the most demanding
technical computing workloads. With the 2nd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors and NVIDIA®
Volta® technologies, the C4140 fills a key gap as a leading GPU-accelerated platform in the PowerEdge
server portfolio to enable a scalable business architecture in a heterogeneous data center environment. With
four double-width accelerators in just 1U of space, the C4140 delivers outstanding performance and
maximum density while reducing your space, cost and management requirements.