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This section describes a single workstation that ran the NVIDIA nVector automated workload. The test was automated and data was captured by NVIDIA nVector. The single workstation was able to consume more than its default allocated resources due to the “Best Effort” vGPU scheduler being used. Because there was only a single workstation VM per GPU, there was no contention for GPU resources. For additional information, see the NVIDIA vGPU documentation.
The following table shows the single Virtual Workstation VM configuration:
Configuration | Value |
vCPU | 6 |
vMemory | 32768 |
HardDisk | 120 |
GPU | grid_t4-8q |
GPUDriverVersion | 442.06 |
FRL | Disabled |
vSYNC | Default |
vDAVersion | 7.10.1 |
DirectConnectVersion | 7.10.1 |
CPUAffinity | Unset |
Screen Resolution | 1920 x 1080 |
QuantityMonitors | 1 |
The following table shows the average host utilization metrics for this test:
Workload | Density per host | Average CPU | Average GPU | Average free memory | Average net Mbps per user |
SPECviewperf 13 3ds Max | 1 | 5% | 39% | 333 GB | 13.68 Mbps |
The following figure shows the CPU core utilization for the system under test. CPU core utilization remained relatively low with the highest point reaching approximately 8 percent.
The following figure shows the GPU utilization for the system under test. GPU metrics were gathered by using NVIDIA-SMI on the VMware ESXi host. The utilization for one of the GPUs was quite high for this test, while the other remained unused. This is expected for this workload with a single workstation VM.
The following figure shows the free memory in the system during the test. There were no variations in memory usage throughout the test because all vGPU-enabled VM memory was reserved. There was no memory ballooning or swapping on either host.
The following figure shows the network utilization of the system during the test. There was more than enough bandwidth available for the workload and the display protocol to accommodate the workload. Each server had a single 25 GbE (25,000 MBits) network card connected to it.