AI & ML

• Unified Management for AI/ML Hardware Accelerators

• Simplified Hardware Consumption with Device Groups

• Next-Generation of Virtual Hardware Devices

AI & ML

Unified Management for AI/ML Hardware Accelerators

Device Groups makes Virtual Machines consuming complementary hardware devices simpler in vSphere 8. NIC and GPU devices are supported in vSphere 8 GA. Compatible vendor device drivers are required and subject to vendor release. NVIDIA® will be the first partner supporting Device Groups with upcoming compatible drivers.

Device groups can be composed of two or more hardware devices that share a common PCIe switch or devices that share a direct interconnect between each other. Device groups are discovered at the hardware layer and presented to vSphere as a single unit that represents the group.

Simplified Hardware Consumption with Device Groups

Device Groups are added to virtual machines using the existing Add New PCI Device workflows. vSphere DRS and vSphere HA are aware of device groups and will place VMs appropriately to satisfy the device group.

Next-Generation of Virtual Hardware Devices

Device Virtualization Extensions builds on Dynamic DirectPath I/O and introduces a new framework and API for vendors to create hardware-backed virtual devices. Device Virtualization Extensions allows greater support for virtualization features such as live migration using vSphere vMotion, suspending and resuming a virtual machine and support for disk and memory snapshots.

Credit: VMware.com