With the addition of the new graphics processing cards, the engineering, design, imaging, and marketing departments of organizations can now experience the benefits that desktop virtualization brings to the applications they use at higher user densities per server. To enhance the capability to deliver these high-performance and graphics-intensive applications in virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), Cisco offers support for the NVIDIA GRID RTX 6000, RTX 8000, P6, and M10 cards in the Cisco UCS portfolio of PCI Express (PCIe) and mezzanine form-factor cards for the Cisco UCS C-Series Rack Servers and B-Series Blade Servers respectively. Using the increased processing power of Cisco Unified Computing System™ (Cisco UCS®) C-Series Rack Servers and B-Series Blade Servers, applications with the most demanding graphics requirements are being virtualized. Performance testing with SPECviewperf 13.Verify the NVDIA configuration on the host.Verify NVDIA license acquisition by desktops.Verify that the NVIDIA driver is running on the desktop.Configure the virtual machine for an NVIDIA GRID vGPU license.Verify that applications are ready to support vGPU.Install the NVIDIA vGPU software driver.Prepare a virtual machine for vGPU support.

Install NVIDIA GRID Software on the VMware ESX Host and Microsoft Windows Virtual Machine.

Configure the NVIDIA GRID license server.

Install NVIDIA Tesla GPU card on Cisco UCS C240 M5.

GPU acceleration for Microsoft single-session OS

GPU acceleration for Microsoft Windows Server.

GPU acceleration for Microsoft Windows desktops.

Graphics acceleration in Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops.

NVIDIA Quadro Virtual Data Center Workstation Software.

Opengl support for vmware esxi 6