How-to configure and licence a provisioned vGPU

When you provision a vGPU on The ITS Private Cloud, a couple of steps must be performed before using the resource. First, a driver must be installed in the guest operating system and a license must be assigned. This how-to provides the necessary steps to get your vGPU ready for action.

Download and Install the driver

1. From the Guest Operating system open a sftp, scp or your vskey-stor.eis.utoronto.ca MinIO interface and browse to the following path /ut-vss-lib/nvidia-grid-vpshere-7.0-525.147.01-525.147.05-529.19/Guest_Drivers.

2. Download the driver based on your operating system. i.e. using sftp to install nvidia-linux-grid on Ubuntu:

   sftp {vss-user}@vskey-stor.eis.utoronto.ca cd /ut-vss-lib/nvidia-grid-vsphere-7.0-535.183.04-535.183.01-538.67/Guest_Drivers get nvidia-linux-grid-535_535.183.01_amd64.deb

3. Install the driver in the virtual machine guest operation system. i.e. on Ubuntu:

   apt install dkms dpkg -i nvidia-linux-grid-535_535.183.01_amd64.deb

License your vGPU

Windows

1. Open cmd as Administrator.

2. cd into C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Tools

   cd C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Tools

3. Extract the token from the guest info interface:

4. Restart services:

5. The virtual machine will check-in with our on-premise license server and activate any requested feature.

Linux

1. As root, copy the file /etc/nvidia/gridd.conf.template to /etc/nvidia/gridd.conf.

2. Open a text editor and edit the FeatureType to select either of the following values:

3. To enable NVIDIA RTX Virtual Workstation, select 2:

4. Extract the token from the guest info interface and save it to a file in the directory /etc/nvidia/ClientConfigToken/ as follows:

5. If necessary, change the mode of the client configuration token to 744:

6. Restart the services.

7. The virtual machine will check-in with our on-premise license server and activate any requested feature.

References

• Client Licensing User Guide