Assign 1 GPU to 3 Vm's

Virtual GPU Forums General Discussion
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Hi, I have Setup the Dell Poweredge R720
2 x Xeon E5-2680 8 Core with Total 32 Cores
128 GB ECC Ram
RAID1 2 x 500 SAS Drives for vSphere
RAID 10 4 x 1TB SSD for the VM’s
1 x Nvidia Quadro M5000 Card

Each VM is
Windows 10 Pro
6 Cores
16 GB Ram
250 SSD Storage

I Assign the PCIe as M5000 and it’s working fine but I can only run 1 VM at a time with the M5000 as soon as I try to run the other 2 VM’s I get the error

Power On VM
Key: haTask-12-vim.VirtualMachine.powerOn-538978948
Description: Power On this virtual machine
Virtual machine: Win10-2
State: Failed - Module ‘DevicePowerOn’ power on failed.
Errors:
Module ‘DevicePowerOn’ power on failed.
Device 66:0.0 is already in use.
Failed to start the virtual machine.

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And what is the question? For sure you can only run GPU Passthrough with a single VM.
For everything else you would need vGPU which requires specific Tesla GPUs like Tesla T4.

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Hi

As Simon mentions, this is the expected and correct behaviour for this GPU.

The only Quadro GPUs that support virtualisation / vGPU are the RTX 6000 and RTX 8000.

Depending on your Applications and use case, what you could do is build a single RDSH VM, run the GPU in Passthrough and have your 3 (or more) users share the GPU like that.

Regards

MG

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Hello
can i add two frame plates in the vm esxi and define one for each vm, thus using one plate in each vm? would have any configuration problem?