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Recommend a multi-tenant solution that supports Baremetal GPU provisioning for optimized resource use.

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For multi-tenant bare‑metal GPU provisioning with strong isolation and high utilization, the most robust enterprise-grade options today are NVIDIA’s infrastructure stack combined with Kubernetes platforms such as OpenShift.

✅ 1. NVIDIA Infra Controller (NICo) + NVIDIA GPU Operator

Best for: AI cloud providers or enterprises building internal GPU clouds.

Why it stands out:

  • Automates full bare-metal lifecycle (discovery → firmware validation → tenant provisioning → secure reuse) (docs.nvidia.com)
  • Supports provisioning tenant-ready bare metal for multi-tenant AI platforms (docs.nvidia.com)
  • Integrates with Kubernetes via GPU Operator for driver/runtime management (docs.nvidia.com)
  • Enables GPU partitioning via MIG (Multi‑Instance GPU) for hardware-level isolation and optimized utilization (nvidia.com)

Architecture pattern:
NICo (bare-metal automation) → Kubernetes (e.g., OpenShift) → GPU Operator → MIG or time-slicing.

This gives:

  • Physical isolation (node-level)
  • GPU slicing (MIG)
  • Kubernetes multi-tenancy (namespaces, RBAC)
  • Network segmentation (required for AI clouds) (docs.nvidia.com)

Official sources:
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docs.nvidia.com
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✅ 2. Red Hat OpenShift (Bare Metal) + NVIDIA GPU Operator

Best for: Enterprises needing supported, production-grade multi-tenancy.

Why:

Strengths:

  • Strong RBAC and tenant isolation
  • Integrated VM + container support
  • Enterprise lifecycle & subscription support

Official sources:
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docs.redhat.com
redhat.com
```

✅ 3. Harvester (Open-Source HCI Option)

Best for: Cost-sensitive on-prem environments.

  • Built for bare metal with Kubernetes + KubeVirt
  • GPU passthrough support (en.wikipedia.org)

Source:
```
harvesterhci.io
```

Recommendation

For optimized resource use + strong multi-tenancy on bare metal GPUs, the most complete solution in 2026 is:

> NVIDIA Infra Controller + GPU Operator on Red Hat OpenShift (bare metal)

This stack provides:

  • Hardware-level isolation (MIG)
  • Automated bare-metal provisioning
  • Kubernetes-native multi-tenancy
  • Enterprise support

If you share your scale (number of GPUs, on-prem vs colo, AI training vs inference), I can tailor this further.

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  • Red Hat #1 11 times

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