After you install and configure NSX on a host, you can monitor inventory objects of the Host Transport Nodes and view the DPU-related information on the NSX Manager interface:

The following fields display the DPU-related information of Host Transport Node on the NSX Manager interface:
  • DPU: On the Monitor tab of the Host Transport Node, the DPU chart displays the CPU cores allocated and the system memory used by a host on DPU. Click on the info info icon icon beside the DPU field to view the DPU-related information, such as the device number, vendor or model name, firmware version, and OS version.
  • DPU Backed: On the Physical Adapters tab of Host Transport Node, the DPU Backed field displays if the hypervisor host is backed by the DPU or not. This is to know the DPU presence on the ESXi host:
    • If DPU Backed is 'Yes', the interface is backed by the DPU and is in the 'MANAGED' state.
    • If DPU Backed is 'No', it is the standard hypervisor host.
    Note: ESXi on DPU is used as a traditional NIC until NSX transport node is configured. The VDS on vCenter Server indicates if network offloading is permitted when NSX is enabled.
    Hosts backed by DPU are associated with VDS. You get a granular view of VDS backed by the DPU at an individual host level. Click the Switch Visualization tab to view the uplinks configured on the VDS backed by the DPU that is connected to uplinks.