Hi there,
I'm dealing with a customer who wants to provide hardware acceleration to both Windows and Linux desktops from a single server with a single graphics card. My immediate suggestion was that we use the latest Tesla M60 to run everything in a vGPU configuration which, assuming a compatible Linux distro, will be able to provide acceleration to both flavours of operating system.
However, a more cost effective solution might be to install an older GRID K1 card in to the unit, and using the vDGA for Linux desktops features (present since 6.1 I believe) I could pass through a GPU directly in to each Linux desktop. However, lets say for example I have 4 Windows desktops and 2 Linux desktops on a server. The K1 card has 4 GPUs, so could I pass through 2 of the GPUs in to the 2 Linux desktops, and then share the other 2 GPUs between the 4 Windows GPUs in a vSGA configuration?
I guess in summary my question is - if I install the vSGA software VIB driver in to the ESXi host, will I still be able to do PCI pass through on the card, or will the hypervisor remove those devices from the list of available ones?
Many thanks in advance.