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3 Dell EMC PowerEdge Servers with NVIDIA GPUs and VMware vSphere | Technical white paper
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Revisions............................................................................................................................................................................. 2
Acknowledgements ............................................................................................................................................................. 2
Table of contents ................................................................................................................................................................ 3
Executive summary ............................................................................................................................................................. 4
1 Use cases for NVIDIA GPUs in vSphere ..................................................................................................................... 5
1.1 VMware vDGA .................................................................................................................................................... 5
1.2 NVIDIA grid vGPU .............................................................................................................................................. 5
1.3 VM DirectPath I/O GPU ...................................................................................................................................... 6
2 Hardware and software requirements .......................................................................................................................... 7
2.1 Configuring vDGA ............................................................................................................................................... 7
2.1.1 Configuring Windows VM with direct access to the GPU ................................................................................... 7
2.1.2 Configuring vDGA feature with vSphere ............................................................................................................ 7
2.2 Configuring vGPU ............................................................................................................................................... 8
2.3 Configuring VM DirectPath I/O GPU .................................................................................................................. 9
3 GPU support matrix with Dell EMC PowerEdge servers............................................................................................ 10
3.1 PowerEdge yx5x servers supporting NVIDIA GPU .......................................................................................... 10
3.2 PowerEdge yx4x servers supporting NVIDIA GPU .......................................................................................... 11
3.3 PowerEdge yx3x and yx2x servers supporting NVIDIA GPU .......................................................................... 12
3.4 vGPU support matrix ........................................................................................................................................ 13
3.4.1 vGPU supported servers and GPUs matrix ...................................................................................................... 13
3.5 vDGA support matrix ........................................................................................................................................ 14
3.5.1 vDGA certified on PowerEdge servers with NVIDIA GPUs .............................................................................. 14
3.5.2 vDGA certified on Dell EMC VxRail servers with NVIDIA GPUs ...................................................................... 15
4 Known issues and resolution ...................................................................................................................................... 16