NVIDIA-SMI has failed because it couldn't communicate with the NVIDIA driver. Make sure that the latest NVIDIA driver is installed and running

In Vmware sphere 7(Evaluation version) trying Multi-Instance GPUs (MIG) on the NVIDIA A30.
Things done

1- Global SR-IOV Enabled in BIOS
2-esxcli graphics host set –-default-type SharedPassthru
3-Install the ESXi Host Driver for MIG Support
- esxcli system maintenanceMode set –enable=true
- esxcli software vib install -v NVIDIA_bootbank_NVIDIA-VMware_ESXi_7.0_Host_Driver_460.107-1OEM.700.0.0.15525992.vib
- esxcli system maintenanceMode set –enable=false
4-Reboot

Problem :

1-I dont see driver being loaded

[localadmin@localhost:~] vmkload_mod -l | grep -i nvidia
[localadmin@localhost:~]

2-[localadmin@localhost:~] nvidia-smi
NVIDIA-SMI has failed because it couldn’t communicate with the NVIDIA driver. Make sure that the latest NVIDIA driver is installed and running.

[localadmin@localhost:~]

hey @rahul.anand , were you able to solve it? I seem to have exactly the same problem and i’ve followed the same setup as you.