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Improving Healthcare withVMware Horizon andNVIDIA GPUShane LimbachTechnical Systems Senior EngineerS9162March 20th, 2019
DisclaimerSharing high level contentA more technical discussion is encouragedContent taken from Dev environmentSome concepts may not be in productionTeamworkNot an individual effort. It takes a team to make this workSharing what I have experiencedI am open to correction and discussionAll Data has been anonymized, no identifiable information
Who Am IShane LimbachTechnical Systems Senior EngineerNebraska MedicineOmaha, Nebraska14 Years of IT ExperienceAcademic/HealthcarePublic Power DistrictConstructionExperienceVmware ESXi, Horizon, vSANActive DirectoryHobbiesLEGOPC GamingOmaha VMUG Leader
Nebraska MedicineAcademic health organization consisting of hospitals, specialty clinics, andhealthcare collegesFounded in 1997, tracing its roots back to 1869Nebraska’s largest healthcare organization with more than 8000 employees andphysiciansInternational reputation for breakthroughs in cancer care, organ transplantation,and treatment of infectious diseases
HardwareDell PowerEdge R740 vSAN ReadyNodeDual Intel Xeon Gold 6150 @ 2.70 GHz768 GB RAM per Host 7TB SSD per HostDual 1600W power suppliesNVIDIA Tesla M10 GPUExpandable to 2 physical GPUs per Host
Journey to GPUStarted project in December 2017Project originally started as Hyperconvered POC for HorizonvSAN - DellNutanix - LenovoSimplivity - HPEGPU not originally in scope, but it would be a disservice to not see thecapabilitiesTested both Tesla M10 and Tesla M60
Testing casesWindows 10 1703General Knowledge workers1GB – 2GB GPU profileIT DesktopEpic Hyperspace 2018Virtual GPU profiles usedM10-8QM10-4QM10-2QM10-1QRadiology workstationsMcKesson Radiology (PACS)2GB – 4GB GPU profileDiagnostic stationsQC stationsNVIDIA Quadro Virtual DatacenterWorkstaion (Quadro vDWS) Licensefor EducationVMware vROPsNVIDIA vROPs pluginVMware BLAST
Radiology TestingWhat does the VM look like2 vCPU8 GB RAM2GB – 4GB GPU profileWindows 10Dr’s and Rad Techs must be ableto transition seamlessly betweenslices
Future StateWhat does the future hold for healthcare and GPU?MATLABBESA ResearchDeep LearningUtilizing GPU vMotion in vCenter 6.7u1Drain hosts of vms to fully utilize the GPU
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McKesson Radiology (PACS) 2GB -4GB GPU profile Diagnostic stations QC stations Virtual GPU profiles used M10-8Q M10-4Q M10-2Q M10-1Q NVIDIA Quadro Virtual Datacenter Workstaion (Quadro vDWS) License for Education VMware vROPs NVIDIA vROPs plugin VMware BLAST. Radiology Testing What does the VM look like 2 vCPU
