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NVIDIA used VMware Explore to announce a new data center solution with Dell Technologies bringing AI training, AI inference, data processing, data science, and zero-trust security capabilities to enterprises globally. The solution combines Dell PowerEdge servers with NVIDIA BlueField DPUs, NVIDIA GPUs, and NVIDIA AI Enterprise software and is optimized for the newly announced VMware vSphere 8 enterprise workload platform.

NVIDIA used VMware Explore to announce a new data center solution with Dell Technologies bringing AI training, AI inference, data processing, data science, and zero-trust security capabilities to enterprises globally. The solution combines Dell PowerEdge servers with NVIDIA BlueField DPUs, NVIDIA GPUs, and NVIDIA AI Enterprise software and is optimized for the newly announced VMware vSphere 8 enterprise workload platform.

NVIDIA has already added the technology to the NVIDIA LaunchPad hands-on lab to allow enterprises to experience the combination of these technologies and get access to hardware and software for end-to-end workflows in AI, data science, and more.

Manuvir Das, head of EnterpriseComputing at NVIDIA, said:

AI and zero-trust security are powerful forces driving the worlds enterprises to rearchitect their datacenters as computing and networking workloads are skyrocketing. VMware vSphere 8 offloads, accelerates, isolates, and better secures data centerinfrastructure services onto the NVIDIA BlueField DPU and frees the computing resources to process the intelligence factories of the worlds enterprises.

Dells Travis Vigil, senior vice president, portfolio and productmanagement, Infrastructure Solutions Group, added:

Dell and NVIDIAs long tradition of collaborating on next-generation GPU-accelerated data centers hasalready enabled massive breakthroughs. Now, through a solution that bringsNVIDIAs powerful BlueField DPUs along with NVIDIA GPUs to our PowerEdge server platform, ourcontinued collaboration will offer customers performance and security capabilities to help organizationssolve some of the worlds greatest challenges.

vSphere on BlueField DPUs will unlock hardware innovation helping customers meet the throughput and latency needs of modern distributed workloads. vSphere will enable this by offloading and accelerating network and security infrastructure functions onto DPUs from CPUs.

The BlueField DPUs will be managed through the iDRAC BMC with a special cable, allowing full out-of-band management versus a traditional edge-card installation. This means that the DPU in this deployment wont usually be a customer-installed device, but one that you select when the server is configured.

Customers running applications that demand high network bandwidth and fast cacheaccess such as in-memory databases can expect to reduce the number of cores required but achieve better performance. Reducing the number of cores will also improve TCO. Offloading to DPUs can also result in a higher transaction rate with lower latency by leveraging freed CPU cores and better cache locality, all while benefitting from vSphere DRS and vMotion.

By running infrastructure services on DPUs and isolating them from the workloaddomain, vSphere on DPUs will boost infrastructure security. Additionally, now in beta,NSX Distributed Firewall will offload to DPUs to scale customers security operationsby securing East-West traffic at line rate without the need for software agents.

vSphere 8 will dramatically accelerate AI and machine learning applications bydoubling the virtual GPU devices per VM, delivering a 4x increase of passthroughdevices, and vendor device groups that allow binding of high-speed networkingdevices and the GPU.

Krish Prasad, VMwares senior vice president and general manager of the CloudPlatform Business Unit, explained:

Dell PowerEdge servers built on the latest VMware vSphere 8innovations, and accelerated by NVIDIA BlueField DPUs, provide next-generation performance andefficiency for mission-critical enterprise cloud applications while better protecting enterprises fromlateral threats across multi-cloud environments.

As NVIDIA-Certified Systems, the Dell PowerEdge servers can run the NVIDIA and VMware AI-Ready Enterprise Platform, featuring the NVIDIA AI Enterprise software suite and VMware vSphere.

NVIDIA AI Enterprise is a comprehensive, cloud-native suite of AI and data analytics software optimizedto enable organizations to use AI on familiar infrastructure. It is certified for any deployment, fromthe enterprise data center to the public cloud, and includes global enterprise support to keep AIprojects on track.

An upcoming release of NVIDIA AI Enterprise will support new capabilities introduced inVMware vSphere 8, including the ability to support larger multi-GPU workloads, optimize resources andefficiently manage the GPU lifecycle.

With NVIDIA LaunchPad, enterprises can get access to a free hands-on lab of VMwarevSphere 8 running on NVIDIA BlueField-2 DPU.

Dell servers with vSphere 8 on NVIDIA BlueField-2 DPU will be available later in the year.

NVIDIA AIEnterprise with VMware vSphere is now available and can be experienced on NVIDIA LaunchPad hands-lab.

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