Hi All

Its time to plan updating your NVIDIA TESLA M6, M10, M60, P4, P6, P40, P100, V100, T4, RTX6000, RTX8000 with NVIDIA vGPU software 8.0

NVIDIA have released new drivers for NVIDIA vGPU 8.0 for April 2019

NVIDIA vGPU 8.0 is a MAJOR release with many new software features + support for the new RTX6000 and RTX8000 GPUs, which are NVIDIA flagship for Real Time Raytracing. The great thing is now they have vGPU capabilities, which is a BIG NEWS.

I have in this article also included 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.

For a list of validated server platforms, refer to NVIDIA GRID Certified Servers.

Important:

• Citrix XenServer 7.5 is not supported with vGPU 8.0
• Citrix XenServer 7.0, 7.1 is not supported with NVIDIA Tesla T4
• NVIDIA vGPU 8.0 is supported with VMware Horizon 7.8, 7.7, 7.6, 7.5, 7.4, 7.3, 7.2, 7.1, 7.0, 6.2
• NVIDIA vGPU 8.0 is only supported with Citrix Virtual Apps & Desktops (aka XenDesktop) 7.15, 7.17, 7.18, 7 1808, 7 1903 in HDX 3D Pro mode
• VMware vSphere ESXi 5.5 is no longer supported with NVIDIA vGPU 8.0
• If you are a customer using XenServer 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5 its no longer supported with NVIDIA vGPU 8.0 and should plan upgrading to XenServer 7.6 or upcoming Citrix Hypervisor 8.0
• Customer using Citrix XenServer 7.2, 7.3 is supported with NVIDIA vGPU 6.0 & 6.1
• Customer using Citrix XenServer 7.4 is supported with NVIDIA vGPU 6.0 & 6.1 & 6.2
• Customers using Citrix XenServer 7.0, 7.1, 7.6 is supported with NVIDIA vGPU 8.0
• Customers using Citrix XenServer 7.0, 7.1 isn’t supported with XenMotion with vGPU

This release includes the following software:

• NVIDIA vGPU  Manager version 418.66 for the Citrix XenServer, VMware vSphere, RHEL KVM, Nutanix AHV
• NVIDIA Windows driver version 425.31
• NVIDIA Linux driver version 418.70

New in this Release:

• Support for the following GPUs:
  • Quadro RTX 6000
  • Quadro RTX 8000
• Support for the following OS releases as a guest OS:
  • Windows 10 October 2018 Update (1809)
  • Windows Server 2019
• Support for Windows Server 2019 with Hyper-V role
• New -1B4 virtual GPU types (4K resolution/1monitor on 1GB FB)
• Support for multiple vGPUs of the following types in a single VM:
  • RTX6000-24Q
  • RTX8000-48Q
  • Above is valid for hypervisor
    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux with KVM
    • Red Hat Virtualization RHV 4.2
• vGPU migration with ESX & XenMotion support on the following GPUs: 
  • Tesla M6
  • Tesla V100 SXM2
  • Tesla V100 SXM2 32GB
  • Tesla V100 PCIe
  • Tesla V100 PCIe 32GB
  • Tesla V100 FHHL
  • Quadro RTX 6000
  • Quadro RTX 8000
• Miscellaneous bug fixes
• Security updates