NVIDIA GRID 5.0 is released

Written by Thomas Poppelgaard

Hi All

Its time to update your NVIDIA TESLA M6, M10, M60 environment or start using the new TESLA P4, P6, P40, P100 with GRID 5.0.

NVIDIA have released new drivers for NVIDIA GRID 5.0 for September 2017.

This release includes the following software:

• NVIDIA GRID Virtual GPU Manager version 384.73 for the Citrix XenServer, VMware vSphere, Huawei UVP
• NVIDIA Windows driver version 385.41
• NVIDIA Linux driver version 384.73

 
New in this Release:

• Support for GPUs based on the NVIDIA® Pascal™ architecture
• Compute mode support for GRID vGPU and pass-through GPU on GPUs based on the NVIDIA Pascal architecture
• New GRID vGPU schedulers for GPUs based on the NVIDIA Pascal architecture
• Support for NVML and nvidia-smi on 32-Bit Windows VMs
• Application-level monitoring of GRID vGPU engine utilization
• Encoder session monitoring
• Support for NVENC on Linux GRID vGPUs
• Removal of support for GRID K1 and GRID K2 GPUs
• Software enforcement of licensing requirements
• Miscellaneous bug fixes

Supported NVIDIA GPUs with GRID 5.0

• Tesla M6
• Tesla M10
• Tesla M60
• Tesla P4
• Tesla P6
• Tesla P40
• Tesla P100

Supported Hypervisors with GRID 5.0

• Citrix XenServer
• Citrix XenServer 7.0, 7.1, 7.2 (supported with Tesla M6, M10, M60, P4, P6, P40, P100)
  Citrix XenServer 6.5 (supported with Tesla M6, M10, M60)
• VMware vSphere
  VMware vSphere 6.5 (supported with Tesla M6, M10, M60, P4, P6, P40, P100)
  Vmware vSphere 6.0 update3, update 2, update 1, RTM b2494585 (supported with Tesla M6, M10, M60, P4, P6, P40, P100)
  VMware vSphere 5.5 (supported with Tesla M6,M10,M60)
• Microsoft Hyper-V 2016
  Microsoft Windows Server 2016 with Hyper-V role (supported with Tesla M6, M10, M60, P4, P6, P40, P100)
  note: Microsoft Windows Server with Hyper-V role supports GPU pass-through over Microsoft Virtual PCI bus. This bus is supported through paravirtualized drivers. 
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux with KVM
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux with KVM 7.2, 7.3 (supported with Tesla M6, M10, M60, P4, P6, P40, P100)
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux with KVM 7.0, 7.1 (supported with Tesla M6,M10,M60)
• Huawei UVP
  Huawei UVP RC520 (supported with Tesla M60)

Whats new in GRID 5.0 – 384.73-385.41

NVIDIA have released a new version of GRID 5.0 – 384.73-385.41 for NVIDIA GRID  (Tesla M6, M10, M60, P4, P6, P40, P100 platform)

Included in this release is

• NVIDIA GRID Virtual GPU Manager versions 384.73 for Citrix XenServer 6.5 SP1
• NVIDIA GRID Virtual GPU Manager versions 384.73 for Citrix XenServer 7
• NVIDIA GRID Virtual GPU Manager versions 384.73 for Citrix XenServer 7.1
• NVIDIA GRID Virtual GPU Manager version 384.73 for VMware vSphere 6.0 Hypervisor (ESXi)
• NVIDIA GRID Virtual GPU Manager version 384.73 for VMware vSphere 6.5 Hypervisor (ESXi)
• NVIDIA Windows drivers for vGPU version 385.41
• NVIDIA Linux drivers for vGPU version 384.73.

Important:

The GRID vGPU Manager and Windows guest VM drivers must be installed together. Older VM drivers will not function correctly with this release of GRID vGPU Manager. Similarly, older GRID vGPU Managers will not function correctly with this release of Windows guest drivers

Windows Guest OS support in vGPU 385.41

GRID vGPU 385.41 supports following Windows release as a guest OS

• Microsoft Windowss 7 (32/64bit)
• Microsoft Windows 8 (32/64bit)
• Microsoft Windows 8.1 (32/64bit)
• Microsoft Windows 10 (32/64bit)
• Microsoft Windows Server 2008R2
• Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2
• Microsoft Windows Server 2016

Linux Guest OS support in vGPU 384.73

GRID vGPU 384.73 supports following Linux distributions as a guest OS only on supported Tesla GPUs

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.0-7.3
• CentOS 7.0-7.3
• Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
• Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Important driver notes to GRID 5.0

• In pass-through mode, GPUs based on the Pascal architecture support only 64-bit guest operating systems. No 32-bit guest operating systems are supported in pass-through mode for these GPUs.
• ESXi 6.0 Update 3 is required for pass-through mode on GPUs based on the Pascal architecture.
• Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 are not supported in pass-through mode on GPUs based on the Pascal architecture.
• Only Tesla M6 is supported as the primary display device in a bare-metal deployment.
• 32-bit Windows 10 is supported only on Tesla M6, Tesla M10, and Tesla M60 GPUs.
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux with KVM 7.0 and 7.1 are supported only on Tesla M6, Tesla M10, and Tesla M60 GPUs.
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux with KVM supports Windows guest operating systems only under specific Red Hat subscription programs. For details, see Certified guest operating systems for Red Hat Enterprise Linux with KVM.
• Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, 32-bit Windows 10, and 32-bit Windows 8.1 are supported only on Tesla M6, Tesla M10, and Tesla M60 GPUs.

 
 
For the update Guides
– Update existing vGPU GRID Manager (Hypervisor)
– Update existing vGPU Driver (Virtual Machine)

Please visit the original Blog Post of Thomas Poppelgaard: https://www.poppelgaard.com/nvidia-grid-5-0-released

The Author:
Thomas Poppelgaard has 19 years of experience with IT. Currently working as an independent Technology Evangelist at his own company Poppelgaard.com.

He is awarded Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) since 2015, Citrix Technology Professional (CTP) since 2013, RES Value Professional (RVP) since 2013 and Atlantis Expert (ACE) since 2015. He also is a well-known speaker at worldwide IT events like NVIDIA GTC, Citrix Synergy, CUG Norway, CUG Dutch, CUG Finland, E2E Virtualization Conference in 2011/2012/2013/2015/2016 and has held multiple Citrix Geek Speak Live sessions.
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