Deploying GRID without use of Citrix/VmWare

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Hi guys,

we are experimenting with a GRID deployment but without the use of Citrix or VMware. Our first aim is to simply passthrough the Tesla Grid M10 card to 4 different Vms.

Hypervisor: WS2012 Std
Vm: Win 8.1 Ent 64bit
Card: Nvidia Tesla M10
Hw: PowerEdge T620

All software dependencies have been checked & installed, Grid driver installed to the Hyper-V, RemoteFX video card has been added to the VM in the Hyper-V Manager, but I cannot install the GRID driver onto the VM.

It shows the "Microsoft RemoteFX Grapics Device - WDDM" in Device Manager with the exclamation mark, however if I try to install the proper driver pack "369.71_grid_win8_win7_server2012R2_server2008R2_64bit_international" it tells me that "This graphics driver could not find compatible hardware".

What could be the problem here? Is there a solution for deploying without ESXi or Xen?
Thanks for the help mates!

Regards,
Mike

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You will need an evaluation license for the M10, there is a hyper-V/server 2016 one available within the portal. Licensing would then depend on how you delivered it RemoteFX is a vPC license and RDSH vApps if no quadro needs.

This article contains details of where to get M10 drivers: Error | NVIDIA

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There do seem to be some community set up guides around: https://blog.workinghardinit.work/2016/04/11/discrete-device-assignment-in-windows-server-2016-hyper-v/

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Hi Mcerveny!

Thanks for the quick reply mate! We’ve installed a WS2016 and assigned (DDA) one M10 instance to the VM (Win10Ent, RDP 10.2) and it works. However the performance isn’t that great, I’ll have to find out why.

We have logged in with a Windows 8 (RDP 8.1) onto the Win10 but the rendering it’s somewhat laggy. I’ll have to start reading blogs and posts guess so:)

As per your M40 theory: you’re probably right, the card identifies itself as a M40 in the DELL iDRAC when listing the PCI devices.

Regards,
MIke