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7 Configure virtual machine video card 3D capabilities.
8 Obtain the GPU drivers from the GPU vendor and install the GPU device drivers in the guest operating
system of the virtual machine.
9 Install VMware Tools and Horizon Agent in the guest operating system and reboot.
After you perform these tasks, you must add the virtual machine to a manual pool View desktop pool so
that you can access the guest operating system using PCoIP. In a PCoIP session, you can then activate the
NVIDIA display adapter in the guest operating system.
At this point, you can configure the virtual machine to be a template or take a snapshot of the virtual
machine for use as a base image in a View Composer linked-clone pool. (You must power off the virtual
machine before taking the snapshot.) When you use the Add Desktop Pool wizard, after you select the
NVIDIA GRID vGPU option for 3D Renderer, only NVIDIA GRID vGPU-enabled ESXi hosts and NVIDIA
GRID vGPU-enabled virtual machine templates and snapshots appear for selection in the wizard.
Preparing to Use the Capabilities of AMD Multiuser GPU Using vDGA
AMD Multiuser GPU using vDGA provides direct pass-through to a physical GPU, providing a user with
unrestricted, dedicated access to a single GPU. Before you attempt to create a desktop pool that has
capabilities to use AMD Multiuser GPU using vDGA, you must perform certain configuration tasks on the
virtual machines and ESXi hosts.
This overview is an outline of tasks you must perform in vSphere before you can create or configure
desktop pools in View Administrator. For information about enabling GPU device pass-through and adding
a PCI device to a virtual machine, see the VMware white paper about graphics acceleration.
1 Install the graphics card on the ESXi host.
2 Install the GPU vSphere Installation Bundle (VIB).
3 Verify that VT-d or AMD IOMMU is enabled on the ESXi host.
4 Use the esxcfg-module command to configure the graphics card for SR-IOV (Single Root I/O
Virtualization) .
See “Configuring AMD Multiuser GPU Using vDGA,” on page 155.
5 Reboot the ESXi host.
6 Add a PCI device to the virtual machine and select the appropriate PCI device to enable GPU pass-
through on the virtual machine.
7 Reserve all memory when creating the virtual machine.
8 Configure virtual machine video card 3D capabilities.
9 Obtain the GPU drivers from the GPU vendor and install the GPU device drivers in the guest operating
system of the virtual machine.
10 Install VMware Tools and Horizon Agent in the guest operating system and reboot.
After you perform these tasks, you must add the virtual machine to a manual desktop pool so that you can
access the guest operating system using PCoIP or VMware Blast Extreme. If you attempt to access the
virtual machine using a vSphere, the display will show a black screen.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View
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