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
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
.Download the driver based on your operating system. i.e. using
sftp
to installnvidia-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
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
Open cmd as Administrator.
cd
intoC:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Tools
cd C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Tools
Extract the token from the guest info interface:
Restart services:
The virtual machine will check-in with our on-premise license server and activate any requested feature.
Linux
As
root
, copy the file/etc/nvidia/gridd.conf.template
to/etc/nvidia/gridd.conf
.Open a text editor and edit the
FeatureType
to select either of the following values:To enable NVIDIA RTX Virtual Workstation, select
2
:Extract the token from the guest info interface and save it to a file in the directory
/etc/nvidia/ClientConfigToken/
as follows:If necessary, change the mode of the client configuration token to
744
:Restart the services.
The virtual machine will check-in with our on-premise license server and activate any requested feature.
References
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