Intel® Data Center Graphics Driver for VMware ESXi*

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12/13/2024

Introduction

The Intel® Data Center GPU Flex 140 and Intel® Data Center GPU Flex 170 are PCIe discrete graphics products designed to deliver GPU-accelerated graphics and media functionality to end users.

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Detailed Description

The Intel® Data Center GPU Flex 140 and Intel® Data Center GPU Flex 170 are PCIe discrete graphics products designed to deliver GPU-accelerated graphics and media functionality to end users. This software utilizes Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV) technology in conjunction with VMware* vSphere Enhanced DirectPath I/O to distribute the execution time of a single Physical Function (PF) GPU among multiple Virtual Function (VF)-based Virtual Devices (VDEVs), thereby offering graphics acceleration to workloads running in Virtual Machines (VMs). In addition, it enables VMware vSphere vMotion to live migrate VMs with GPU workloads from one server to another.

 

Please note this is not a standard ESXi I/O kernel driver. It is used with Enhanced DirectPath I/O to access the device. VMware's certification of the Intel® Data Center GPU Driver verifies basic platform and device requirements for Enhanced DirectPath I/O, checking that the driver enables VDEVs correctly, exposes them to the VM's guest operating system, and provides VM live migration across hosts. The Enhanced DirectPath I/O certification test suite does not certify end-to-end functionality of the device. It is Intel's responsibility to support end users with end-to-end interoperability and functionality of the overall solution.

 

Additional Documentation

VMware Horizon* Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) Guide for Intel® Data Center GPU Flex Series - Setup Reference Guide

Citrix VDI Guide for Intel® Data Center GPU Flex Series Setup Reference Guide

 

Customer Support

To submit an Intel® Premier Support (IPS) ticket, please go to https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/secure/my-intel/dashboard.html

 

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