Tesla P4 ESXi PCI Passthrough No vCenter or License Server

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Hi

Does anyone know if it’s possible to use a Telsa P4 card in PCI Passthrough to a Windows 10 VM without using vCenter or the NVIDIA License Server?

ENVIRONMENT
ESXi 6.5
Windows 10 VM
NVIDIA Windows Driver: 425.25-tesla-desktop-win8-win7-64bit-international.exe

I’m assuming I don’t need a VIB driver installed as we’re passing the P4 directly through the Hypervisor to the Windows 10 VM?

With the above setup I can see that the Windows 10 VM recognises the Telsa P4 card but DXDIAG reports that Display 1 is using the VMware vSGA driver.

I can use a license server if required, however, there is no vCenter so not sure how adding a Shard PCI Device or Profiles would work. If anyone can point me to the appropriate guide I’d be grateful.

Many thanks.
Will

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Passthrough does not require the vGPU manager. You won’t need a license if you run the Tesla only driver.
SVGA driver is a different issue. Simply remove the SVGA driver from the VMWare tools.

regards
Simon