Microsoft have released a new instance powered by NVIDIA A10 GPUs and AMD EPYC 74F3V(Milan) CPU with a base frequency of 3.2 Ghz, all cores peak frequency of 4.0Ghz. With NVadsA10v5-series Azure is introducing virtual machines with partial NVIDIA GPUs. Pick the right sized virtual machine for GPU accelerated graphics applications and virtual desktops starting at 1/6th of a GPU with 4-GiB frame buffer to a full A10 GPU with 24-GiB frame buffer.
The preview is currenty availabe in Azure – US South Central and Azure – West Europe regions.
Prices are now GA (21th March 2022) for North Europe, US East 2, US West3
NVIDIA Ampere GPU (A10) is supporting GPU-P (SR-IOV) which is why its a big step for partitioning the GPU and making the price dramatically cheaper in Azure. *note there have not been released any prices yet of the instances (its unknown)
It’s time to plan updating your NVIDIA Enterprise GPUs. NVIDIA vGPU Software 14 is now GA since February 2022.
NVIDIA vGPU software includes vWS, vCS, vPC, and vApps.
If you got any of following NVIDIA GPU’s: A100, A40, A30, A16, A10, A2, RTX A6000, RTX A5000, RTX8000, RTX6000, V100, T4, P100, P40, P6, P4, M60, M10, M6 If you are interested in a quick overview of which NVIDIA enterprise GPU is supporting which hypervisor, Guest os and remoting technology, I highly recommend you check out this link from NVIDIA that provides the NVIDIA vGPU software product support matrix.NVIDIA vGPU software 14 is supported until February 2023. NVIDIA vGPU software 14 is a Product Branch Support.
I this article, I am also covering which Public Cloud instance is available with NVIDIA GPUs and which license is BYO or provided by the public cloud provider such as Azure, AWS, GCP, Alibaba.
For a list of validated server platforms, refer to NVIDIA vGPU Certified Servers.
Important note for EUC (Citrix/VMware customers):
NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit profilers can be enabled when unified memory is enabled.
Nsight Systems GPU context switch trace is supported.
Enhancements to the NVIDIA Management Library (NVML) to determine whether a vGPU type supports GPUDirect technology and peer-to-peer CUDA transfers over NVLink
Addition of RPM and Debian packages for the NVIDIA vGPU software graphics drivers for Linux
Security updates – see Security Bulletin: NVIDIA GPU Display Driver – February 2022, which is posted shortly after the release date of this software and is listed on the NVIDIA Product Security pages
Miscellaneous bug fixes
Hardware and Software Support Introduced in Release 14.0
Support for the following GPUs:
NVIDIA A2
NVIDIA A30X
NVIDIA A100X
Support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux with KVM hypervisor 8.5
Support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.5 as a guest OS
Support for Debian 10 as a guest OS
Support for Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops version 7 2112
Support for VMware Horizon 2111 (8.4)
Feature Support Withdrawn in Release 14.0
Red Hat Enterprise Linux with KVM hypervisor 8.1, 7.8, and 7.7 are no longer supported.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 is no longer supported as a guest OS.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.8 and 7.7 are no longer supported as a guest OS.
Windows Server 2012 R2 is no longer supported as a guest OS.
Features Deprecated in Release 14.0
The following table lists features that are deprecated in this release of NVIDIA vGPU software. Although the features remain available in this release, they might be withdrawn in a future release. In preparation for the possible removal of these features, use the preferred alternative listed in the table.
It’s time to plan updating your NVIDIA Enterprise GPUs. NVIDIA vGPU Software 13 is now GA since August 2021.
NVIDIA vGPU software includes vWS, vCS, vPC, and vApps.
If you got any of followin NVIDIA GPU’s: A10, A16, A30, A40, A100, M6, M10, M60, P4, P6, P40, P100, V100, T4, RTX A5000, RTX A6000, RTX6000, RTX8000 If you are interested in a quick overview of which NVIDIA enterprise GPU is supporting which hypervisor, Guest os and remoting technology, I highly recommend you check out this link from NVIDIA that provides the NVIDIA vGPU software product support matrix.NVIDIA vGPU software 13 is supported until August 2024. NVIDIA vGPU software 13 is a Long-Termin Support Branch.
I this article, I am also covering which Public Cloud instance is available with NVIDIA GPUs and which license is BYO or provided by the public cloud provider such as Azure, AWS, GCP, Alibaba.
Tracing and profiling through the CUDA Profiling Tools Interface (CUPTI)
Compatibility with the guest VM drivers from the previous long-term support branch (11)
Single-slice GPU instances with decoder support
Miscellaneous bug fixes
Hardware and Software Support Introduced in Release 13.0
Support for the following GPUs:
NVIDIA A100 PCIe 80GB
NVIDIA A30
NVIDIA A16
Support for Windows Server 2022 with Hyper-V role
Support for Windows Server 2022 as a guest OS
Support for Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops version 7 2106
Support for VMware Horizon 2106 (8.3)
Feature Support Withdrawn in Release 13.0
The following GPUs are no longer supported on VMware vSphere:
NVIDIA A100 HGX 80GB
NVIDIA A100 PCIe 40GB
NVIDIA A100 HGX 40GB
Instead, these GPUs are supported on VMware vSphere with NVIDIA AI Enterprise.
NVIDIA Virtual Compute Server (vCS) is no longer supported on VMware vSphere and C-series vGPU types are no longer available. Instead, vCS is supported on VMware vSphere with NVIDIA AI Enterprise.
The base VMware vSphere 7.0 release and VMware vSphere 7.0 Update 1 are no longer supported.