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ESXI 6.7/7.0 Nvidia GRID vGPU doesn't work

Hey. Im install nvidia plugin for esxi. It was successful but nvidia-smi  say here no nvidia plugin. I cheked and find out plugin installed but not loaded. After this i load module in kernel and got new error 

/sbin/nvidia-smi --query

Failed to initialize NVML: Unknown Error

 

Any suggestions?

 

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Ciao

The card RTX A5000 is compatible in shared mode only from version ESXi 7.x and with the 450.248.03 driver

VMware Compatibility Guide - Shared Pass-Through Graphics

 

and from the NVIDIA documentation it seems recommended or mandatory to have ESXi  7u2:

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Ciao,

Do you have DELL server?  Have you set Memory Mapped in the bios?

What NVIDIA driver version are you trying to use?

 

Fabio 

 

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No. HP . In BIOS here no option Memory Mapped

i have 6.7 update 3. Install NVIDIA_bootbank_NVIDIA-VMware_ESXi_6.7_Host_Driver_450.203-1OEM.670.0.0.8169922

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Ok

can you tell me the exact Nvidia card model?

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A5000

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fabio1975
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Ciao

The card RTX A5000 is compatible in shared mode only from version ESXi 7.x and with the 450.248.03 driver

VMware Compatibility Guide - Shared Pass-Through Graphics

 

and from the NVIDIA documentation it seems recommended or mandatory to have ESXi  7u2:

fabio1975_0-1688462624597.png

 

 

 

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