Vmware licensing for passthrough mode

Virtual GPU Forums General Discussion
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Hi,

I am planing to use NVIDIA Tesla M10 card in passthrough mode -
4 VMs per host for Citrix XenApp shared desktop
on top of Vmware ESXi hypervisor

Will I be able to do it using VSphere Standard license or I need Enterprise Plus anyway?

2

vGPU is a feature of Enterprise Plus therefore if you use passthrough there is no need to have Enterprise Plus licensing

3

IF we are using an M10 and passing through the 4 GPU’s to 4 different XenApp machines. Do we need to by quadro or vApps?

4

see your other thread…

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Hi,
I would like to be sure of what was answered above.

Actuallyi have have a request for a single rack (testing system) with an ESXi onboard.
With Vsphere Standard Licence are we able to create passthru gpu devices with 1/2 tesla P100
and use it on some different virtual machine like a normal grahpics interface?
The request i’ts to test only the 3D acceleration for some VirtualReality applications,
no deep learning or other.

best regards
Alessandro Rei

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Hi,

not really sure what you ask. Passthrough is 1:1 assignment and has nothing to do with 1/2.
For sure you can use a GPU in Passthrough for graphics but you need a QvDWS license in addition!

Regards
Simon

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So sorry for the "1/2"
i mean One or Two Tesla P100 in passthrough over "some" vm,
but thanks in advance for the info about the QvDWS licence.