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Dell EMC PowerEdge Servers with NVIDIA GPUs and VMware vSphere | Technical white paper
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Revisions
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Acknowledgements
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Executive summary
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Use cases for NVIDIA GPUs in vSphere
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VMware vDGA
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NVIDIA grid vGPU
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VM DirectPath I/O GPU
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Hardware and software requirements
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Configuring vDGA
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2.1.1
Configuring Windows VM with direct access to the GPU
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Configuring vDGA feature with vSphere
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Configuring vGPU
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Configuring VM DirectPath I/O GPU
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GPU support matrix with Dell EMC PowerEdge servers
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3.1
PowerEdge yx5x servers supporting NVIDIA GPU
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PowerEdge yx4x servers supporting NVIDIA GPU
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PowerEdge yx3x and yx2x servers supporting NVIDIA GPU
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vGPU support matrix
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vGPU supported servers and GPUs matrix
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vDGA support matrix
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3.5.1
vDGA certified on PowerEdge servers with NVIDIA GPUs
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vDGA certified on Dell EMC VxRail servers with NVIDIA GPUs
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Known issues and resolution
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