(Source: NvidiaPress release）
Manuvir Das, director of enterprise computing at NVIDIA, said:
As computing and networking workloads proliferate, artificial intelligence (AI) and Zero Trust Security are emerging as powerful forces for businesses around the world to re-architect their data centers.
At the same time, VMware vSphere 8 can hand off data center infrastructure services to NVIDIA BlueField DPUs, complemented by acceleration, isolation and better protection support to free up valuable computing power.
Travis Vigil, Senior Vice President of Product Portfolio and Management for Dell’s Infrastructure Solutions Group, added:
Dell and NVIDIA have a long history of working together on GPU-accelerated data centers and have already made huge breakthroughs.
Now, Dell is bringing NVIDIA’s powerful BlueField DPU/GPU to its PowerEdge server platform.
Through continued collaboration, Dell customers will be able to benefit from the platform’s performance and security capabilities, helping organizations meet a range of significant challenges.
With vSphere 8 running on BlueField, its performance can be further enhanced.
By offloading work from the CPU to the DPU, customers will be able to accelerate networking and security services while ensuring their performance can meet the throughput and latency demands of modern distributed workloads.
This combination of configurations improves performance and efficiency while helping to simplify operations and improve infrastructure security in data centers, edge computing, cloud, and hybrid environments.
Krish Prasad, senior vice president and general manager of VMware’s Cloud Platform Group, explained:
Distributed modern applications with AI/ML and analytics capabilities are driving the transformation of data center architectures by leveraging accelerators and providing better security as part of mainstream application infrastructure,” said VMware.”DELLBuilt on the latest VMware vSphere 8 innovations and accelerated by NVIDIA BlueField DPUs, PowerEdge servers deliver next-generation performance and efficiency for mission-critical enterprise cloud applications, while better protecting businesses from lateral threats across multi-cloud environments. “
NVIDIA-certified Dell PowerEdge servers will be able to run the company and VMware AI-Ready enterprise platforms— This solution is based on the NVIDIA AI Enterprise software suite and VMware vSphere.
● NVIDIA AI Enterprise is a comprehensive suite of cloud-native AI and data analytics software that, when properly optimized, enables enterprise customers to use relevant AI technologies on their familiar infrastructure.
— Certified solutions can be deployed anywhere, from data centers to public clouds, complemented by global support to keep AI projects running smoothly.
● The upcoming release of NVIDIA AI Enterprise will also support new features introduced in VMware vSphere 8.
— Includes support for larger multi-GPU workloads, optimized resources, and the ability to easily manage GPU lifecycles.
● Additionally, with NVIDIA LaunchPad, enterprises can access VMware vSphere 8 instances running on NVIDIA BlueField-2 DPUs.
Finally, Dell PowerEdge servers with vSphere 8 on NVIDIA BlueField-2 DPUs will be available later this year.
NVIDIA AI Enterprise with VMware vSphere has been launched, and interested friends can get started experience through NVIDIA LaunchPad.