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Use cases for NVIDIA GPUs in vSphere
6 Dell EMC PowerEdge Servers with NVIDIA GPUs and VMware vSphere | Technical white paper
1.3 VM DirectPath I/O GPU
In this approach, a GPU is assigned as a PCIe pass-through device to the VM. The guest operating system
deployed in a VM can access the GPU directly and can offload all the relevant computational or graphical
operations to the GPU. The vGPU is not shared across the VMs. Performance is expected to be closer to a
bare-metal deployment. When VM DirectPath is used, other vSphere functions such as vMotion, DRS, and
cloning, or snapshots are not supported. This feature is targeted for machine learning, HPC, and other AI-
related workloads in virtualized environments.