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To prepare for the instalation of the VIB, the host must be placed in maintenance mode. This has been done for you.
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This part of the lab is presented as a Hands-on Labs Interactive Simulation. This will allow you to experience steps which are too time-consuming or resource intensive to do live in the lab environment. In this simulation, you can use the software interface as if you are interacting with a live environment.
The orange boxes show where to click, and the left and right arrow keys can also be used to move through the simulation in either direction.
In this lab we will be using the NVIDIA Grid Tesla M60 Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) cards. The NVIDIA vSphere Installation Bundle (VIB) contains drivers that are required for the host to recognize the GPU. This is also referred to as the vGPU Manager. Before you begin the installation process, you should confirm:
The vGPU Manager VIB is loaded similar to a driver in the hypervisor. The vGPU Manager allows for up to eight users to share each physical GPU. With the M60 that is up to 32 users per card. The VIB can be downloaded from http://www.nvidia.com.
Note: NVIDIA does not support an in place upgrade of the vGPU Manager VIB.
To prepare for the instalation of the VIB, the host must be placed in maintenance mode. This has been done for you.
Now you are ready to install the VIB
Note: The VIB installation command requires the entire path to VIB in order to be successful.
Reboot Required states false. This is not correct. A reboot is necessary in order for the xorg, the configuration file for the NVIDIA card to load, and the driver to start.
You will now need to confirm the VIB installed correctly
Now that the VIB has been loaded correctly, the final step is to verify that the vGPU is now being detected by the host.
In this lab we are using ESXi 6.5 host. When using ESXi 6.5 you will need to modify your Graphic Devices option in order for the vGPU device to be available to a VM.
You have now completed the initial installation and configuration process on your host. The vGPU device is now ready to be used by the VMs in your environment.
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