A city is standing up the control plane for a municipal AI factory and plans HA head nodes. Which product should be installed as the cluster manager?
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Short Explanation
BCM is the city’s cluster front desk—install Base Command Manager for the AI factory heads and plan HA while you are at it. Spreadsheets are not a control plane.
Full Explanation
A city standing up the control plane for a municipal AI factory with planned HA head nodes should install NVIDIA Base Command Manager (BCM) as the cluster manager. BCM is the head-node stack for provisioning, imaging, and managing the AI factory nodes; selecting it at control-plane stand-up—with HA heads planned—matches the NCP-AII bring-up path for NVIDIA AI infrastructure rather than improvised desktop tools. The cluster manager is the municipal front desk for node lifecycle. Using a consumer laptop backup utility as the only head-node stack fails by concept: backup utilities do not provision or manage AI cluster nodes. Using an unmanaged spreadsheet as the exclusive node-provisioning system fails by concept: spreadsheets cannot image, monitor, or consistently configure GPU servers. Using a desktop window manager with no cluster provisioning features fails by concept: GUI windowing is unrelated to cluster control-plane functions. Exam caveat: installing BCM does not by itself complete HA—HA head pairing and failover verification are separate configuration and test steps that should be planned alongside the initial install. Operational check: install BCM for the city AI factory heads, document the HA design, bring up the primary head, prepare for secondary head addition, and verify basic node management before declaring the control plane ready.