Deploy all DPU-enabled VMware ESXi hosts into a dedicated VMware vSphere cluster:

Since the customer has amission-critical, latency-sensitive stock trading application, it is essential todedicate resourcesto these workloads to avoid contention with other less critical workloads. By placingDPU-enabled ESXi hosts in a dedicated cluster, the architect ensures that the hardware acceleration provided by the DPUs can be fully utilized by the latency-sensitive application without interference from other workloads.

Configure network offloads compatibility to support DPUs:

DPUscan offload network-related tasks from the CPU, such as network packet processing, and ensure better performance and lower latency. Byconfiguring network offload compatibilityin VMware ESXi, the system will leverage the DPU’s capabilities to offload network traffic processing, reducing the CPU burden and improving network performance for latency-sensitive applications.

Deploy new vSphere distributed switches (8.0.0) and connect the new DPU-enabled hosts:

For optimal support and performance withDPU-enabled hosts, the architect should deployvSphere distributed switches (VDS) version 8.0.0. The newer version will be optimized for the hardware and provide better integration with DPUs, ensuring the latest features, improvements, and support for DPUs, thus maximizing the performance and minimizing latency for mission-critical applications.