VMware vSphere-6.7 vGPU Nvidia

[hbaccouche]

Hi,

I have installed VMware-VMvisor-Installer-6.7.0.update02-13006603.x86_64, on my server and the vib to the supported NVIDIA-VMware_ESXi_6.7_Host_Driver-430.27-1OEM.670.0.0.8169922.x86_64.vib, download from the Nvidia Enterprise Website but the base machine will not start with vGPU.

When running 'nvidia-smi' on the host, it's shows the cards:

[root@localhost:~] nvidia-smi

Tue Jul  2 09:35:54 2019

+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+

| NVIDIA-SMI 430.27       Driver Version: 430.27       CUDA Version: N/A      |

|-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+

| GPU  Name        Persistence-M| Bus-Id        Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |

| Fan  Temp  Perf  Pwr:Usage/Cap|         Memory-Usage | GPU-Util  Compute M. |

|===============================+======================+======================|

|   0  Quadro RTX 6000     On   | 00000000:1A:00.0 Off |                  Off |

| 34%   36C    P8   146W / 260W |    159MiB / 24575MiB |      0%      Default |

+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+

|   1  Quadro RTX 6000     On   | 00000000:1B:00.0 Off |                  Off |

| 34%   37C    P8   150W / 260W |    159MiB / 24575MiB |      0%      Default |

+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+

|   2  Quadro RTX 6000     On   | 00000000:60:00.0 Off |                  Off |

| 33%   36C    P8   137W / 260W |    159MiB / 24575MiB |      0%      Default |

+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+

|   3  Quadro RTX 6000     On   | 00000000:61:00.0 Off |                  Off |

| 34%   37C    P8   140W / 260W |    159MiB / 24575MiB |      0%      Default |

+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+

|   4  Quadro RTX 6000     On   | 00000000:B1:00.0 Off |                  Off |

| 34%   37C    P8   147W / 260W |    159MiB / 24575MiB |      0%      Default |

+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+

|   5  Quadro RTX 6000     On   | 00000000:B2:00.0 Off |                  Off |

| 34%   37C    P8   146W / 260W |    159MiB / 24575MiB |      0%      Default |

+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+

|   6  Quadro RTX 6000     On   | 00000000:DA:00.0 Off |                  Off |

| 33%   31C    P8   140W / 260W |    159MiB / 24575MiB |      0%      Default |

+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+

|   7  Quadro RTX 6000     On   | 00000000:DB:00.0 Off |                  Off |

| 33%   35C    P8   144W / 260W |    159MiB / 24575MiB |      0%      Default |

+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+

I changed the default GPU mode from “Shared” (vSGA) to “Shared Direct” (vGPU) via vCenter to enable vGPU support for VMs.

Here is the error message

Thanks for your help

[daphnissov]

That's a consumer-grade card which is neither supported by that VIB nor ESXi in general.

[hbaccouche]

it's not a consumer-grade card is a professional card

[daphnissov]

Be that as it may, it's not on the official HCL.

[hbaccouche]

the compatibility table Nvidia say that it is compatible

[daphnissov]

My mistake, I missed it on the first look through the HCL. The entry is here. Make sure you're using at least driver 418.66.

[hbaccouche]

I used the last driver 418.66 but i have already the same error.

Do you have an other idea?

[hbaccouche]

I solved my problem, i forget to enable Intel VT on BIOS.