Question: 42 I In HPE Private Cloud AI, which tool provisions GPU-enabled Kubemetes clusters?

HPE Private Cloud AI is an integrated, full-stack solution designed for AI workloads. The core software layer for orchestration and management is the HPE Ezmeral Software Platform. Within this platform, HPE Ezmeral Runtime Enterprise is the specific component responsible for deploying and managing containerized applications. It provides an enterprise-grade container orchestration platform built on 100% open-source Kubernetes, with integrated capabilities to provision and manage clusters that leverage hardware accelerators like NVIDIA GPUs, which are essential for AI model training and inference.

B. VMware vCenter is a management platform for VMware vSphere virtualized environments. It is not the native tool within the HPE Private Cloud AI solution for provisioning Kubernetes clusters.
C. Windows Admin Center is a management tool for Microsoft Windows Server environments and is not used for managing Linux-based Kubernetes clusters in this HPE solution.
D. OpenStack Horizon is the graphical user interface for the OpenStack cloud platform. HPE Private Cloud AI is built on HPE Ezmeral, not OpenStack.

1. HPE Private Cloud AI Solution Brief

Document ID: a00136162enw

November 2023.

Page 2

"A full-stack

integrated solution": "The solution is co-engineered and pre-configured with a full stack of AI software from NVIDIA

built on the HPE Ezmeral Software Platform

and delivered through HPE GreenLake." This establishes the HPE Ezmeral Software Platform as the foundational software layer.

2. HPE Ezmeral Runtime Enterprise Data Sheet

Document ID: a00103221enw

April 2023.

Page 1

Overview: "HPE Ezmeral Runtime Enterprise is the industry’s first enterprise-grade container platform... It provides the ability to deploy 100% open source Kubernetes for orchestration..."

Page 2

"Key features and benefits": This section details its capabilities

including "Support for GPUs and FPGAs

" confirming its role in managing hardware accelerators within Kubernetes clusters.

3. HPE Ezmeral Runtime Enterprise 5.5 Documentation

"Creating a New Kubernetes Cluster" section.

The documentation for creating a Kubernetes cluster explicitly details the steps for configuring worker nodes

which includes assigning specific resources like GPUs to the nodes within the cluster being provisioned. This directly demonstrates its function as the provisioning tool.