Team, I am currently working on a project where we are deploying Dell Xe9680 with H200 SXM using VMware ESXi for virtualization. We are facing challenges as vGPU support has not yet been officially released for VMware ESXi 8 Series hypervisor. If anyone is experiencing similar issues, please share any available workarounds. Your assistance would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you in advance.
What are the issues you are facing and why do think there is no support for ESX?
Have you checked the support matrix:
Regards
Simon
Hi Simon, thank you for your response.
Based on the documentation you shared, all HGX platforms with VMware vSphere hypervisor or any other hypervisor do not support VM with GPU Passthrough configuration. Only VM with vGPU devices are currently supported.
We logged a case with VMware, and support confirmed that ESXi 8.0.3e (the latest version) also doesn’t support vGPU or passthrough for H200 SXM.
Our goal is to install ESXi, map the GPU device to the VM, and install K8S Kubernetes containers inside the GPU VM.
I would appreciate your assistance if you can confirm when vgpu driver will be launced for Vmware esxi 8.x series.