ESXi 6.7 + Tesla T4 - Passthrough not working

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Wondering if anyone has had any success passing a T4 through to centos/ubuntu on 6.7. The T4 is showing up as 32 individual devices in ESXi called "NVIDIA corporation 3D controller. I have tried picking the one with a base address of 0000:XX:00.0 but no matter what I do I always get

“NVRM: The NVIDIA GPU 0000:0b:00.0 (PCI ID: 10de:1eb8)
NVRM: installed in this system is not supported by the
NVRM: NVIDIA 418.67 driver release.
NVRM: Please see ‘Appendix A - Supported NVIDIA GPU Products’
NVRM: in this release’s README, available on the operating system
NVRM: specific graphics driver download page at www.nvidia.com.”

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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I am also having a problem with this. I’ve attempted to contact support about a VIB file for EXSi 6.7 to support pass through with T4. I was finally told to post something here on the dev forum.

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Yes, I too am having a similar issue. Trying to use the T4 in 6.7. GPU is visible and is in the iDrac inventory and in esxi but won’t use pass through.

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I think you’re more likely to get help on the grid forums

[url]https://gridforums.nvidia.com/[/url]

the issue you are having here is with GPU passthrough and is not cuda specific

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The solution for this is to enable SR-IOV SBIOS from within the server BIOS. The device should show as a singular device. I was lucky enough to stumble across this: