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2 On the Virtual Hardware tab, add a shared PCI device to the virtual machine.
Client Steps
vSphere Client Click the Add New Device button and select Shared PCI Device from the drop-
down menu.
vSphere Web Client a Select Shared PCI Device from the New device drop-down menu at the
bottom of the wizard.
b Click Add.
3 Expand the New PCI device, and select the NVIDIA GRID vGPU passthrough device to which to
connect your virtual machine.
4 Select a GPU profile.
A GPU profile represents the vGPU type.
5 Click Reserve all memory.
6 Click OK.
The virtual machine can access the device.
USB Configuration from an ESXi Host to a Virtual Machine
You can add multiple USB devices to a virtual machine when the physical devices are connected to an
ESXi host. USB passthrough technology supports adding USB devices, such as security dongles and
mass storage devices to virtual machines that reside on the host to which the devices are connected.
How USB Device Passthrough Technology Works
When you attach a USB device to a physical host, the device is available only to virtual machines that
reside on that host. The device cannot connect to virtual machines that reside on another host in the
datacenter.
A USB device is available to only one virtual machine at a time. When a device is connected to a
powered-on virtual machine, it is not available to connect to other virtual machines that run on the host.
When you remove the active connection of a USB device from a virtual machine, it becomes available to
connect to other virtual machines that run on the host.
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