Preparing to Use vSGA for Full-Clone Virtual Machines

vSGA allows multiple virtual machines to share the physical GPUs on ESXi hosts.

To support vSGA, a pool must meet these additional requirements:

• GPU graphics cards and the associated vSphere Installation Bundles (VIBs) must be installed on the ESXi hosts. For a list of supported GPU hardware, see the Hardware Compatibility Guides.
• The virtual machines must be virtual hardware version 10 or later.
• You can set the 3D Renderer option to any of the following settings: Manage using vSphere Client, Automatic, or Hardware. See Video RAM Configuration Options for the 3D Renderer. Automatic uses hardware acceleration if there is a capable and available hardware GPU in the ESXi host. If a hardware GPU is not available, the virtual machine uses software 3D rendering for any 3D tasks.