Nvidia DGX-2 SYSTEM User Manual

Using DGX-2 System in KVM Mode
DGX-2 System User Guide
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Using NVIDIA KVM, the DGX-2 System can be converted to include a bare metal
hypervisor to provide GPU multi-tenant virtualization. This is referred to as the DGX-2
KVM host. It allows different users to run concurrent deep learning jobs using multiple
virtual machines (guest GPU VMs) within a single DGX-2 System. Just like the bare-
metal DGX-2 System, each GPU-enabled VM contains a DGX OS software image which
includes NVIDIA drivers, CUDA, the NVIDIA Container Runtime for Docker, and other
software components for running deep learning containers.
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Note: Unlike the-bare metal DGX-2 system or the KVM host OS, the guest VM OS is
configured for English-only, and cannot be configured for other languages.
Running NVIDIA containers on the VM is just like running containers on a DGX-2 bare
metal system with DGX OS software installed.
While NVIDIA KVM turns your DGX system into a hypervisor supporting multiple
guest GPU VMs, it does not currently provide support for the following:
 oVirt, virt-manager
The DGX-2 OS incorporates Ubuntu server, which does not include a graphics
manager required by oVirt and virt-manager.
 Orchestration/resource manager
Created GPU VMs are static and cannot be altered once created.

Nvidia DGX-2 SYSTEM Specifications

General

Brand	Nvidia
Model	DGX-2 SYSTEM
Category	Computer Hardware
Language	English