GRID: GRID 10.1 VMware stack installation and testing

Nvidia: Landing Page

Requirements

Virtual GPU Software Supported Products

1. Supported nVidia Graphics Card. In this example we are using an nVidia Quadro RTX 6000. The above link provides the following information (only included information relevant to this build):
   • Most recent driver package available: NVIDIA vGPU for vSphere 6.7
   • Most recent hypervisor: ESXi 6.7
   • Software Product Deployment:
     • NVIDIA vGPU
     • NVIDIA vComputeServer
     • VMware vDGA
     • VMware vSGA
   • Hardware Supported: RTX 6000/RTX 6000 passive
   • Guest OS Support:
     • Windows 10
     • Windows Server 2016
   • Supported Virtualization Products:
     • Windows 10:
       • Horizon
       • Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops
     • Windows Server 2016:
       • Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops
       • RDSH
2. VMware ESXi hypervisor
   • VMware ESXi 6.7 Update 3 14320388
3. VMware vCenter
   • VMware vCenter 6.7 Update 3b (6.7.0.42000) 15132721
4. VM for nVidia License Server
   • Windows Server 2016 1607
5. VM to use vGPU
   • Windows 10 1903

FYI: The 'NVIDIA vGPU for vSphere 6.7' also know as 'NVIDIA Virtual GPU Manager' includes the following:

1. ESXi GPU driver
2. Windows VM graphics drivers
3. Linux VM graphics drivers
4. Documentation

Before You Being

Ensure you have requested the following:

• NVIDIA GRID licence. For a trial GRID Evaluation

Installation Instructions

• Install physical NVIDIA GRID GPU accelerator PCI-E card
• GRID: BIOS configuration
• Standard ESXi installation VMware: ESXi 6.7 installation
• GRID: NVIDIA Virtual GPU Manager on ESXi host
• Standard vCenter installation VMware: vCenter 6.7 appliance deployment
• VMware: ESXi GPU configuration
• NVIDIA: NVIDIA Licensing Server deployment
• GRID: Add licence
• User VM deployment
• VMware: VMware View Agent Direct Connection installation