GRID: NVIDIA Virtual GPU Manager on ESXi host

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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:
    [root@localhost:~] esxcli software vib install -v /NVIDIA-VMware_ESXi_6.7_Host_Driver-440.53-1OEM.670.0.0.8169922.x86_64.vib
    IMAGE REQUIRED Below is the 'operation finished successfully' message.
    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:
  9. Restart ESXi host
    esxcli system shutdown reboot -r NVIDIA_GRID_vib_installation
  10. 'Exit maintenance mode' on the ESXi host
  11. Enable SSH on ESXi host
  12. SSH onto ESXi host
  13. Run the following command to validate a NVIDIA module is loaded into the kernel:
    [root@localhost:~] vmkload_mod -l | grep nvidia
    IMAGE REQUIRED Expected output:
    [root@localhost:~] vmkload_mod -l | grep nvidia
    nvidia 35 19360
  14. Run the following command to validate the 'NVIDIA Virtual GPU Manager' is running as expected:
  15. [root@localhost:~] nvidia-smi
    IMAGE REQUIRED Expected output, you can see a 'Quadro RTX 6000' and 24,575 MiB of memory is present:
    Mon Mar 23 10:49:18 2020
    +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
    | NVIDIA-SMI 440.53 Driver Version: 440.53 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 | 00000000:89:00.0 Off | Off |
    | 33% 30C P8 28W / 260W | 179MiB / 24575MiB | 0% Default |
    +-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
    +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
    | Processes: GPU Memory |
    | GPU PID Type Process name Usage |
    |=============================================================================|
    | 0 2100034 G Xorg 5MiB |
    +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+

House Keeping

  1. Delete the vib file from the system root
    [root@localhost:~] rm -f /NVIDIA-VMware_ESXi_6.7_Host_Driver-440.53-1OEM.670.0.0.8169922.x86_64.vib
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