AI Infrastructure and Operations Simplified with NVIDIA and VxRail
Aug. 25, 2021 -- Today, Dell Technologies is announcing the certification of Dell EMC VxRail for the newly available NVIDIA AI Enterprise software suite. NVIDIA AI Enterprise is an end-to-end, cloud-native suite of AI and data analytics software, optimized, certified and supported by NVIDIA to run on VMware vSphere with NVIDIA-Certified Systems. It includes key enabling technologies from NVIDIA for rapid deployment, management and scaling of AI workloads in the modern hybrid cloud.
VxRail is the first HCI system to achieve certification with NVIDIA. As the only HCI system jointly engineered with VMware to enhance VMware, VxRail delivers a fully curated HCI platform with end-to-end automation including single click, full stack lifecycle management (LCM). The VxRail certified systems have been tested specifically with NVIDIA AI Enterprise workloads taking the guesswork out of which VxRail and NVIDIA GPU configurations are optimized for their AI workloads.
Simplifying the AI Experience
While VxRail and NVIDIA GPUs deliver the performance needed for AI workloads, we have worked together to simplify the entire experience, from procurement to deployment, to day to day operations and lifecycle management. VxRail HCI System Software delivers end-to-end automation and LCM, and native integration with existing VMware management tools helps reduce the complexity of adopting NVIDIA AI Enterprise in VMware environments. Customers adopting NVIDIA AI Enterprise can seamlessly manage their infrastructure and application from a single console so that AI resources can be managed more efficiently and effectively, saving time and money.
Accelerating AI Apps
In June, Dell Technologies announced that the VxRail V Series now offers A100 Tensor Core GPU options. When combined with NVIDIA AI Enterprise and NVMe caching capabilities, these configurations offer greater performance and simpler deployment for demanding AI and machine learning applications. The NVIDIA A100 delivers world-class AI performance with up to 20 times the performance of the previous generation GPU while NVAIE is optimized for performance and can run AI workloads at near bare-metal speeds with new optimizations for GPU acceleration on vSphere.
Customers also have the option to support larger and more complex AI training and data analytics that may need more boosted scale-out performance with the recently announced VxRail dynamic nodes that take advantage of VMware HCI Mesh to share vSAN storage pools while flexibly growing compute-only resources.
Deploying with Confidence
The rapid pace of AI innovation makes designing and implementing an effective AI infrastructure challenging. Dell Technologies and NVIDIA eliminate the guesswork so you can design and deploy faster using VxRail configurations (V570, V570F and V670F) that are specifically and rigorously tested with NVIDIA AI Enterprise to deliver the best solution for particular AI use cases.
For more information visit the VxRail website or register for our webinar on September 1 where you can hear directly from experts. The session will also be available for on-demand viewing.
Source: Nancy Hurley, Dell Technologies
