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vMware vSphere Bitfusion – Demo for setting up additional Nodes
For Setting up the additional nodes in vMware vSphere Bitfusion cluster you can follow the steps below
- Deploy a VM using Bitfusion ova
- Make sure you do not make any of the mistakes documented in my blog "VMware vSphere Bitfusion Installation Gotchas!"
- Make modification to the VM hardware as per the details provided during the setup
- Enable Bitfusion server on the node
- Do not skip this step, an error here can lead to plugin overwrite
- Once a plugin is overwritten the only way to get back on track is to start from scratch
- Power on the Node
- Download and install the Nvidia driver
- Reboot the Node and wait for it to show up as a part of cluster
vMware vSphere Bitfusion – Demo for setting up the First Server
Setting up the first node of vMware vSphere Bitfusion cluster is a straightforward process with following steps
- Deploy a VM using Bitfusion ova
- Make sure you do not make any of the mistakes documented in my blog "VMware vSphere Bitfusion Installation Gotchas!"
- Make modification to the VM hardware as per the details provided during the setup
- Power on the Node
- Download and install the Nvidia driver
- Reboot the Node and wait for Bitfusion plugin to show up in the vCenter server
VMware vSphere Bitfusion Installation Gotchas!
What is VMware vSphere Bitfusion? VMware Bitfusion is to GPUs what VMware ESXi is to physical servers. VMware vSphere Bitfusion virtualizes hardware accelerators such as graphical processing units (GPUs) to provide a pool of shared, network-accessible resources that support artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) workloads. vSphere Bitfusion works with artificial intelligence frameworks such as TensorFlow and PyTorch. For more details please review https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere-Bitfusion/index.html Prerequisites:
- Bitfusion server must run on vCenter 7.0 and ESXi 7.0
- Bitfusion Clients running in a VM must be hosted on ESXi 6.7 or above
- Before installing the Bitfusion server make sure ESXi server are running on Enterprise Plus License
- Firefox version 82 or above ,Chrome version 73
- Bitfusion server does not work for ESXi server in Evaluation License
- Bitfusion server does not work for ESXi ...
esxtopdrill v2 with Fault finder
On March 5th, 2020 I posted a blog titled Slice and Dice esxtop -b output in this blog I promised another version of the tool with a fault finder Here I am fulfilling that promise. In this blog I will introduce you to the latest version of esxtopdrill tool. The tool has evolved from a command line based utility first posted in my blog Using python to review esxtop -b output to a full-blown GUI based application Code: You must be expecting lines of code, like most of my blogs. This one is a bit different. The code is too long to post in a blog. If you are interested in the code of this project please visit the GitHub repository for this project For those of you who do not want the hassle of setting up the python and dependence you can use the MSI to install as a ...
Python reorganizing a messed-up photo Library!
Python is a neat tool that can be used to achieve variety of automation tasks. This time around it is here to save all the photographers out there. If you are a photographer either hobby or professional, you can relate to directory/Folder containing tons and tons of pictures in random folders. If you can relate to this the blog is for you. It has been said many times that necessity is the mother of invention. This python code came to existence due to a messed-up photo Library living on my own system. There were about 45000 photos spread across a ton of folders. What does this code do? The code looks at all the files in a given folder and it sub folders, it then moves all the file into folders structured as Year -> Month -> File The code first attempts to read the files EXIF data for “Taken ...
