I'm getting the following error when trying to use the K260Q or K280Q grid profiles.
The amount of graphics resource available in the parent resource pool is insufficient for the operation.
Error Stack:
An error was received from the ESX host while powering on VM.
Failed to start the virtual machine.
Module DevicePowerOn power on failed.
Could not initialize plugin '/usr/lib64/vmware/plugin/libnvidia-vgx.so' for vGPU 'grid_k280q'.
No graphics device is available for vGPU 'grid_k280q'.
We're running
Dell R730 with 384GB memory
vSphere esxi 6.0.0-4600944
Horizon View 7.0.3
Horizon View agent 7.0.3
Grid card VIB NVIDIA-vGPU-kepler-VMware_ESXi_6.0_Host_Driver 367.92-1OEM.600.0.0.2494585 NVIDIA VMwareAccepted 2017-04-11
Desktop nVidia driver 369.95
The desktop VM is also only currently assigned 16GB of memory.
Even if i shutdown all vm's running on the host and try to start just one I get the error, they will only boot if I pick the K220Q or K2240Q profiles which are 512 MB and 1 GB respectively, I can not get the higher memory profiles to work no matter what I do.
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6/19/2017 Update to our K2 card issues.
Finally gave up on all the suggestions that we're not resolving the problem or that we had already tried on our own.
Here's what finally fixed our problem.
Updated host to 6.0.0 Update 3 Build 5050593, tested all K2 profiles, all worked with no issues.
Updated host to 6.0.0 Build 5224934, tested all K2 profiles, all worked with no issues.
At this point we felt confident that all was going well so we continued to update the host to the latest build, read below for what happened.
Updated host to 6.0.0 Build 5572656, no VM with a grid card attached would start at all no matter what profile K2 profile was used. At this point I was completely pissed off and decided to call for support, I spent the next fours hours on the phone with two Dell support techs and one VMware support tech. Comically they all went through the same steps and possible solutions that I had already tried multiple times. While they we're debating what to do next I continued to do my own research and found this After upgrading ESXi hosts to ESXi600-201706001 Hardware 3D graphics functioning fails (2150498) | V... neither the Dell or VMware support techs we're aware of this KB article which is understandable since I called for help on the 15th and the article is dated the 14th. The only gotcha with this fix is that its not permanent, if you reboot the host you have to reapply the steps. I assume that the permanent fix will be rolled into the next patch build.
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