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- Dell PowerEdge R6515 | EMC PowerEdge Servers with NVIDIA GPUs and VMware vSphere - Page 1
vSphere Abstract This white paper describes how to configure Dell EMC PowerEdge servers with Nvidia GPUs and VMware vSphere. Also included are a support matrix of GPUs supported on Dell EMC PowerEdge servers, as well as GPU-specific troubleshooting information. March 2020 Technical white paper - Dell PowerEdge R6515 | EMC PowerEdge Servers with NVIDIA GPUs and VMware vSphere - Page 2
© Dell Inc. or its subsidiaries. All Rights Reserved. Dell, EMC, Dell EMC and other trademarks are trademarks of Dell Inc. or its subsidiaries. Other trademarks may be trademarks of their respective owners. 2 Dell EMC PowerEdge Servers with NVIDIA GPUs and VMware vSphere | Technical white - Dell PowerEdge R6515 | EMC PowerEdge Servers with NVIDIA GPUs and VMware vSphere - Page 3
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 3 Dell EMC PowerEdge Servers with NVIDIA GPUs and VMware vSphere | Technical white paper - Dell PowerEdge R6515 | EMC PowerEdge Servers with NVIDIA GPUs and VMware vSphere - Page 4
In its infancy, virtualization technology was limited to CPU, memory, storage, and network applications. Now, however, virtualization troubleshooting solutions for issues you might encounter during setup and deployment. 4 Dell EMC PowerEdge Servers with NVIDIA GPUs and VMware vSphere | Technical - Dell PowerEdge R6515 | EMC PowerEdge Servers with NVIDIA GPUs and VMware vSphere - Page 5
used by multiple users and those operating in dedicated mode. This technical white paper briefs about configuring the NVIDIA GPUs with vSphere for various. The features available in vSphere with NVIDIA GPUs on the Dell EMC PowerEdge servers are: • vDGA (Virtual Dedicated Graphics Accelerator) • vGPU - Dell PowerEdge R6515 | EMC PowerEdge Servers with NVIDIA GPUs and VMware vSphere - Page 6
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 AIrelated workloads in virtualized environments. 6 Dell EMC PowerEdge Servers with NVIDIA GPUs and VMware vSphere | Technical white paper - Dell PowerEdge R6515 | EMC PowerEdge Servers with NVIDIA GPUs and VMware vSphere - Page 7
of the VM, add the VM to the manual desktop pool, so that the guest operating system can be accessed using PCoIP or VMware Blast Extreme. In PCoIP or VMware Blast session, activate the NVIDIA display adapter. 7 Dell EMC PowerEdge Servers with NVIDIA GPUs and VMware vSphere | Technical white paper - Dell PowerEdge R6515 | EMC PowerEdge Servers with NVIDIA GPUs and VMware vSphere - Page 8
on the VM. To configure the vDGA feature with vSphere on a Dell EMC PowerEdge server, complete the following steps: 1. See the support matrix included in this white paper to select the supported and certified GPU for your PowerEdge server. 2. Ensure that the appropriate PSUs are added to the server - Dell PowerEdge R6515 | EMC PowerEdge Servers with NVIDIA GPUs and VMware vSphere - Page 9
certified ESXi version on the PowerEdge server. 7. After successful installation of ESXi, enable pass-through for the GPU in the ESXi host configuration and reboot. 8. Create a VM and deploy a supported Linux OS as guest operating system. 9. Ensure that ESXi host has adequate memory to create the VM - Dell PowerEdge R6515 | EMC PowerEdge Servers with NVIDIA GPUs and VMware vSphere - Page 10
and supported NVIDIA GPU: yx5x PowerEdge servers and NVIDIA GPU support PowerEdge R7525 Y Y Y Y Y Y PowerEdge R7515 N N Y N N N PowerEdge R6525 N N Y N N N PowerEdge R6515 N N Y N N N PowerEdge C6525 N N Y N N N 10 Dell EMC PowerEdge Servers with NVIDIA GPUs and VMware vSphere | Technical white - Dell PowerEdge R6515 | EMC PowerEdge Servers with NVIDIA GPUs and VMware vSphere - Page 11
N N PowerEdge R7425 N N N N Y Y Y Y Y PowerEdge R640 N N N N N N N N Y PowerEdge T640 Y N Y Y N Y Y Y N PowerEdge T440 N Y N N N N N N N PowerEdge C4140 N N Y N N Y Y N N PowerEdge C6420 N N N N N N N N Y 11 Dell EMC PowerEdge Servers with NVIDIA GPUs and VMware vSphere | Technical white - Dell PowerEdge R6515 | EMC PowerEdge Servers with NVIDIA GPUs and VMware vSphere - Page 12
K20c K10 CA GPU support matrix with Dell EMC PowerEdge servers 3.3 PowerEdge yx3x and yx2x servers supporting NVIDIA GPU yx3x and yx2x PowerEdge servers and NVIDIA GPU support PowerEdge R720 Dell Precision Rack 7910 PowerEdge T620 PowerEdge R730 PowerEdge T630 Dell XC730-16G PowerEdge C4130 VRTX - Dell PowerEdge R6515 | EMC PowerEdge Servers with NVIDIA GPUs and VMware vSphere - Page 13
N Y Y Y Y PowerEdge R730 Y Y Y Y N N Dell XC740xd Y Y Y Y Y N Dell XC730-16G Y Y N N N N PowerEdge R940xa N N N Y Y N PowerEdge R840 Y N N Y Y N PowerEdge T640 Y Y N Y Y N PowerEdge T630 N Y N Y Y N 13 Dell EMC PowerEdge Servers with NVIDIA GPUs and VMware vSphere | Technical white paper - Dell PowerEdge R6515 | EMC PowerEdge Servers with NVIDIA GPUs and VMware vSphere - Page 14
PowerEdge R6515 N N N N N N N N N N vDGA certified on PowerEdge servers with NVIDIA GPUs PowerEdge R720 Dell Precision Rack 7910 PowerEdge T620 PowerEdge C8220x PowerEdge R730 PowerEdge T630 Dell XC730-16G PowerEdge C4130 PowerEdge R740 PowerEdge R740xd PowerEdge R840 PowerEdge R940xa PowerEdge - Dell PowerEdge R6515 | EMC PowerEdge Servers with NVIDIA GPUs and VMware vSphere - Page 15
0 M10 V 4 P 4 GPU support matrix with Dell EMC PowerEdge servers PowerEdge C4140 Dell XC740xd-24 PowerEdge R7425 PowerEdge R7515 PowerEdge R6515 N N Y Y Y Y Y Y N N N N N Y N N N N N N N N N N N N N Y N Y Y Y Y N N N N N N N N N Y N N N N N N N N N N Y N 3.5.2 vDGA certified on Dell EMC VxRail - Dell PowerEdge R6515 | EMC PowerEdge Servers with NVIDIA GPUs and VMware vSphere - Page 16
entries related to NVIDIA GPUs present in the server. 4. On Dell EMC PowerEdge yx4x servers, ensure the below settings in System BIOS are set: • Memory Mapped I/O above 4 GB is set to Enable • Memory Mapped I/O Base is set to 512 GB 6. On the PowerEdge R740 server with NVIDIA Tesla T4, an attempt to - Dell PowerEdge R6515 | EMC PowerEdge Servers with NVIDIA GPUs and VMware vSphere - Page 17
User Guide at NVIDIA support site. 9. On the PowerEdge Memory Mapped I/O above 4GB is set to Enable. • Add the below command in the VMX file of VM: o pciPassthru.use64bitMMIO="TRUE" o pciPassthru.64bitMMIOSizeGB = "64" 17 Dell EMC PowerEdge Servers with NVIDIA GPUs and VMware vSphere | Technical
Technical white paper
Technical white paper
Dell EMC PowerEdge Servers with NVIDIA
GPUs and VMware vSphere
How to configure Dell EMC PowerEdge Servers with NVIDIA GPUs and VMware vSphere
Abstract
This white paper describes how to configure Dell EMC PowerEdge servers with
Nvidia GPUs and VMware vSphere. Also included are a support matrix of GPUs
supported on Dell EMC PowerEdge servers, as well as GPU-specific
troubleshooting information.
March 2020