One factor that surprises many in IT is how a lot of a distinction a GPU makes for VDI. Lakeside Software program’s white paper How GPUs Speed up Work-From-House Productiveness has some fascinating statistics. One key level is that in 2020, the proportion of time utilizing graphical apps reached 65.5% for VDI customers. Which means any employee kind will profit from GPU-accelerated VDI, not simply customers utilizing purposes like CAD/CAM.

Decoupled refresh lifecycles

One of many nice issues about X-Collection modularity is the convenience with which you’ll add or improve the person parts: CPU/server, I/O, or GPUs. In case your utility advantages from GPUs, why substitute the server while you solely wish to improve the GPUs? Whereas I do know they exist, I’ve by no means met a buyer who changed a GPU in a manufacturing server. They’ve all the time deployed a brand new server to improve the GPU. They’ve informed me it’s less complicated that manner. With X-Collection, that modifications. You merely substitute the GPU related to the server. Nothing to rack; nothing to cable. After swapping out the PCIe/GPU node, you rediscover the server in Cisco Intersight and your newer, sooner GPUs are prepared for manufacturing. The modularity of the UCS X-Collection structure has actual TCO advantages.

Including a GPU to X-Collection

Relying upon the configuration, the UCS X440p PCIe Node can have as much as 4 NVIDIA GPUs put in. These are the identical GPUs utilized in our UCS C-Collection Rack Servers and are nice for not solely VDI however different workloads like AI/ML. The X440p works along with the UCS 9416 X-Cloth Modules put in within the rear of the X9508 Chassis. It extends the PCIe bus from the UCS X210c Compute Node in an odd slot, to the X440p within the even slot. Collectively, they kind a dual-wide node server with GPUs. You possibly can have higher GPU density per RU by utilizing X-Collection over rack servers when additionally including two GPUs to the X210c server node. Watch the video under to see how straightforward it’s so as to add X-Cloth GPUs to a server.

Summing up

VDI customers with accelerated, GPU enhanced desktops may have a greater expertise and be extra productive. Including GPUs to modular, blade servers has by no means been less complicated or faster. X-Collection protects and extends your funding with a modular kind issue. You possibly can improve solely the parts that add profit to your online business be it the CPU/server, I/O, or GPUs.

What’s subsequent 

Final week’s weblog lined server deployment. Over the approaching weeks, I’ll be publishing a extra X-Collection blogs with brief movies on efficiency, converged infrastructure, and networking amongst different subjects. Come again subsequent week to examine automation with Ansible.

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