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This is my first time doing the client setup. Let's dive right in. Refer to the this installation guide for client setup. Please note that I am documenting based on Ubuntu 18.04. If you are using RHEL or CentOS, your commands may differ. Also some commands are different from the installation guide and these are the catchas I am showing here. Overview for vSphere Bitfusion Client Download the vSphere Bitfusion Client where version is similar to the vSphere Bitfusion Server Check that the vSphere Bitfusion Plugin is workin in the vSphere Client VMware Tool is installed and you are able to see the four power functions in the VM edit setting Make sure vmnic is on VMNET3 power on the VM Install the .deb package, your client will need to be connected to internet as you will need to install some software dependencies before installing the agent Query the package to find out the dependencies > sudo dpkp-deb -I bitfusionxxxx.deb install all the listed dependencies > sudo apt -y ins

Important alert on CVE-2020-4006 as document here which has a maximum CVSSv3 base score of 7.2 which was discovered on 23rd Nov 2020. A workaround was first provided to mitigate this risk now a fix is available. In summary, this vulnerability allows an attacker who have got hold of the configuration admin account for the affected products to execute commands. The configuration admin account password is set during time of deployment. Affected Products: VMware Workspace One Access (Access) VMware Workspace One Access Connector (Access Connector) VMware Identity Manager (vIDM) VMware Identity Manager Connector (vIDM Connector) VMware Cloud Foundation vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager  If you are using any of the products affected, do take sometime to remediate this as soon as possible.

Recently, I was asked to setup vSphere Bitfusion on a set of VxRAIL servers. This was running on vSphere 7.0. Hit into some issues and manage to resolve it. I followed the video demo from this blog but realize there are some things different from the official installation guide . You can also refer to the summary for the system requirement for the vSphere Bitfusion Server. This article is to bring you to all the resources you will need and not hit into such problems that I did. Before we start, the requirement for vSphere Bitfusion is to have vSphere Enterprise Plus licensing and vSphere Bitfusion Add-on per CPU/Processor licenses. Here is a video of the installation. Overview for vSphere Bitfusion Server Download the vSphere Bitfusion binary from VMware Prepare your host to make sure the GPU are added in PCI Passthrough as stated here Import vSphere Bitfusion OVA and deploy into vCenter with the follow information: vCenter login credential If not using DHCP: IP address, subnet mask