With the GPU Profiles setting on the Virtual Hardware page in vSphere Web Client, you can select a virtual GPU type that provides specific capabilities on the physical NVIDIA GPU on the ESXi host.
On Linux virtual machines, NVIDIA GRID vGPU is supported on NVIDIA Maxwell M60 GPUs or NVIDIA M6 GPUs.
Virtual GPU Type | Physical Board | Physical GPUs | FB Per Virtual GPU | Display Heads | Maximum Resolution | Maximum Virtual GPUs Per Physical GPU | Maximum Virtual GPUs Per Physical Board |
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GRID M60-0q | GRID M60 | two | 512M | 2 | 2560x1600 | 16 | 32 |
GRID M60-1q | GRID M60 | two | 1G | 2 | 2560x1600 | 8 | 16 |
GRID M60-2q | GRID M60 | two | 2G | 4 | 2560x1600 | 4 | 8 |
GRID M60-4q | GRID M60 | two | 4G | 4 | 3840x2160 | 2 | 4 |
GRID M60-8q | GRID M60 | two | 8G | 4 | 3840x2160 | 1 | 2 |
Virtual GPU Type | Physical Board | Physical GPUs | FB Per Virtual GPU | Display Heads | Maximum Resolution | Maximum Virtual GPUs Per Physical GPU | Maximum Virtual GPUs Per Physical Board |
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GRID M6-0q | GRID M6 | one | 512M | 2 | 2560x1600 | 16 | 16 |
GRID M6-1q | GRID M6 | one | 1G | 2 | 2560x1600 | 8 | 8 |
GRID M6-2q | GRID M6 | one | 2G | 4 | 2560x1600 | 4 | 4 |
GRID M6-4q | GRID M6 | one | 4G | 4 | 3840x2160 | 2 | 2 |
GRID M6-8q | GRID M6 | one | 8G | 4 | 3840x2160 | 1 | 1 |