vGPU 11 - Error during VM start - vSphere

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#1

Hello,

during the start of a VM on vSphere 6.7 and latest NVIDIA vGPU 11.0 the tasks fails: Could not initialize plugin ‘/usr/lib64/vmware/plugin/libnvidia-vgx.so’ for vGPU ‘grid_t4-8q’.
The host is fresh installed and configured the same way as the other hosts in the cluster (where everything is working).
Same issue with vGPU 10.3. Version 10.2 is working.

#2

The 3 things I’d look for is

  1. Have I configured the resource for vGPU (as opposed to passthrough)
  2. Did i disable ecc on the GPU (believe this is required for pascal based cards)
  3. Do the GPU's have other VM's w/ different profile types working on them?

Are there other vm’s on the host with a different

#3

Hi Korbinian,

we run into the same issue when updating our 4 ESXI hosts from 10.2 to 11.0. Only one host got the same issue. we resolved it by uninstalling and re-installing grid manager on this machine. please also note that ECC has to be disabled. before 11.0 it was a known issue from nvidia that some machines cannot start (this was the reason we upgraded). hope this helps!

regards,
sandro