GRID: NVIDIA Virtual GPU Manager on ESXi host

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Nvidia: Landing Page : GRID 10.1 VMware stack installation and testing

Install NVIDIA Virtual GPU Manager on ESXi Host

  1. Get version number of latest 'Driver Package' from | NVIDIA Virtual GPU Software Supported Products
  2. Download NVIDIA Virtual GPU Manager | NVIDIA Licensing Software Downloads
    E.g. For NVIDIA vGPU for vSphere 6.7
    \\10.0.0.222\software\NVIDIA\GRID\10.1\VMware vSphere\NVIDIA-GRID-vSphere-6.7-440.53-440.56-442.06.zip
  3. Extract the archive
  4. Ensure SSH is enabled on the ESXi host
  5. Copy the 'vib' file via SFTP to the ESXi host to the system root '/'
  6. Put ESXi host into maintenance mode
  7. SSH onto the ESXi host
  8. Run the following command:
    esxcli software vib install -v /NVIDIA-VMware_ESXi_6.7_Host_Driver-440.53-1OEM.670.0.0.8169922.x86_64.vib
    Installation Result
    Message: Operation finished successfully.
    Reboot Required: false
    VIBs Installed: NVIDIA_bootbank_NVIDIA-VMware_ESXi_6.7_Host_Driver_440.53-1OEM.670.0.0.8169922
    VIBs Removed:
    VIBs Skipped:
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