server Distributing GPU in Virtualization

[Meechgalhuquot]

I work in my college IT department and I've been working the last couple days on helping trying to distribute GPU power between different virtual machines, and what we are trying to use is 2 10 core Xeons and 2 GTX 1080's, running Windows Server. Any idea on the best way to do this? The purpose is for running programs that require more graphical power than the NUC's in the labs for the college can deliver.

[Essence_of_Darkness]

2 minutes ago, Meechgalhuquot said:

I work in my college IT department and I've been working the last couple days on helping trying to distribute GPU power between different virtual machines, and what we are trying to use is 2 10 core Xeons and 2 GTX 1080's, running Windows Server. Any idea on the best way to do this? The purpose is for running programs that require more graphical power than the NUC's in the labs for the college can deliver.

Try to use Linux's KVM. Its way better in those scenarios. You can do easily GPU passthrough in KVM.

[brwainer]

How many VMs at a time would need GPU acceleration? If its just two then you can do GPU passthrough, available in Server 2016. If its more than two, then you can use RemoteFX.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/remote/remote-desktop-services/rds-graphics-virtualization