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4 Click Add and select NVIDIA GRID vGPU from the drop-down menu.
5 For the GPU Profile setting, select a virtual GPU type from the drop-down menu.
6 Click Reserve all memory and click OK.
You must reserve all virtual machine memory to enable the GPU to support NVIDIA GRID vGPU.
7 Power on the virtual machine and open vSphere console to connect to the machine.
NVIDIA Virtual GPU Types
With the GPU Profiles setting on the Virtual Hardware page in vSphere Web Client, you can select a virtual
GPU type that provides specific capabilities on the physical NVIDIA GPU on the ESXi host.
On Linux virtual machines, NVIDIA GRID vGPU is supported on NVIDIA Maxwell M60 GPUs.
Table 2‑1. Virtual GPU Types Available for NVIDIA GRID vGPU on Linux Virtual Machines
Virtual GPU
Type
Physical
Board
Physical
GPUs
FB Per
Virtual
GPU
Display
Heads
Maximum
Resolution
Maximum
Virtual
GPUs Per
Physical
GPU
Maximum
Virtual GPUs
Per Physical
Board
GRID
M60-0q
GRID M60 two 512M 2 2560x1600 16 32
GRID
M60-1q
GRID M60 two 1G 2 2560x1600 8 16
GRID
M60-2q
GRID M60 two 2G 4 2560x1600 4 8
GRID
M60-4q
GRID M60 two 4G 4 3840x2160 2 4
GRID
M60-8q
GRID M60 two 8G 4 3840x2160 1 2
Install an NVIDIA Display Driver on RHEL 6.6
To install an NVIDIA display driver on a RHEL 6.6 virtual machine, you must disable the default NVIDIA
driver, download the NVIDIA display drivers, and configure the PCI device on the virtual machine.
Prerequisites
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For an NVIDIA GRID vGPU configuration, verify that you downloaded the vGPU software package
from the NVIDIA download site, uncompressed the package, and have the Linux Display Driver (a
package component) ready to copy to the RHEL 6.6 virtual machine. See “Install the VIB for the
NVIDIA Graphics Card on the ESXi Host,” on page 20.
Also verify that a shared PCI device was added to the RHEL 6.6 virtual machine. See “Configure a
Shared PCI Device for vGPU on the Linux Virtual Machine,” on page 21
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For a vDGA configuration, verify that the PCI device was added to the RHEL 6.6 virtual machine. See
“Add a vDGA Pass-Through Device to a RHEL 6.6 Virtual Machine,” on page 26.
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