Private AI

Lab architecture: the existing management domain mgmt-a with its 4-host cluster and VNA cluster, the new one-host cluster cluster-mgmt-02a running the Supervisor, and the edge-less NSX path through the default transit gateway and VLAN 22 to the router.

One-Host Supervisor on VCF 9.1, Part 1: Allowing Single-Host Clusters in SDDC Manager

I was working with a customer, and we were going through William Lam’s post on running VCF 9.1.1 on a single ESX host. They wanted a vSphere Supervisor so they could run VCF Private AI Services later, but only one of their hosts had GPUs in it. Buying two more GPU hosts just to meet a cluster minimum was not an option. So the question was simple: can we add a one-host cluster to the existing VCF domain and run a Supervisor on it? ...