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PCI at NVIDA Tesla P 100 in shared pass through mode is disabled

  • 1.  PCI at NVIDA Tesla P 100 in shared pass through mode is disabled

    Posted Mar 14, 2019 11:41 AM

    I have successfully completed `NVIDIA Tesla P100` Grid Setup on the `vSphere` Host Server with `VMware ESXI 6.7`.While trying to add `PCI` devices in the VM, the option to choose PCI devices is shown as in the `“Add Other Hardware”` setting in `“Virtual Hardware"`. Please refer the screenshot below.

    I can add PCI devices when NVIDIA is used as `Direct I/O passthrough`, but when I use `NVIDIA shared passthrough`, PCI device is shown as disabled. As, I need to share the GPU, I’m forced to use NVIDIA shared passthrough.

    `nvidia-smi`  is as follows
     

         NVIDIA-SMI 410.91       Driver Version: 410.91       CUDA Version: N/A     
        
        | GPU  Name        Persistence-M| Bus-Id        Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
        | Fan  Temp  Perf  Pwr:Usage/Cap|         Memory-Usage | GPU-Util  Compute M. |
        |===============================+======================+======================|
        |   0  Tesla P100-PCIE...  On   | 00000000:3B:00.0 Off |                  Off |
        | N/A   31C    P0    26W / 250W |     31MiB / 12287MiB |      0%      Default |
        +-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+

    The result of `#esxcli graphics host get` is as follows.
     

         Default Graphics Type: SharedPassthru
           Shared Passthru Assignment Policy: Performance

    Kindly help me to enable the PCI at NVIDA Tesla P 100 in shared pass through mode.