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Clarified GPU description. Added link to design docs for creating new GPU type. * pr/31: Clarified GPU description. Added link to design docs for creating new GPU type Signed-off-by: Erik Weber <[email protected]>
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possible. Otherwise, the VM can be deployed in shared
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infrastructure.
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- **GPU**: Specify the card you want to use.
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- **GPU**: Assign a physical GPU(GPU-passthrough) or a portion of a physicalGPU
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GPU card(vGPU) to the guest VM. It allows graphical applications to run on the VM.
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Select the card from the supported list of cards.
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The options given are NVIDIA GRID K1 and NVIDIA GRID K2. These are vGPU
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capable cards that allow multiple vGPUs on a single physical GPU. If you
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want to use a card other than these, make the createServiceOffering API call.
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want to use a card other than these, follow the instructions in the
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**"GPU and vGPU support for CloudStack Guest VMs"** page in the
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Cloudstack Version 4.4 Design Docs found in the Cloudstack Wiki.
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- **vGPU Type**: Represents the type of virtual GPU to be assigned to a
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guest VM. In this case, only a portion of a physical GPU card (vGPU) is
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assigned to the guest VM. The available options includes GRID K100, K140Q,
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K200 and so on.
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assigned to the guest VM.
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Additionally, passthrough vGPU type is defined to represet a physical GPU
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device. A passthrough vGPU can directly be assigned to a single guest VM.
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Additionally, the **passthrough vGPU** type is defined to represent a physical GPU
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device. A **passthrough vGPU** can directly be assigned to a single guest VM.
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In this case, a physical GPU device is exclusively allotted to a single
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guest VM.
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