NVIDIA M60 support on XenServer

NVIDIA M60 support on XenServer -

Citrix XenServer recently added support for Maxwell-core architecture based Tesla cards with M60 6.5 SP1 version of Windows operating system.

Tesla M60 is the first of its kind, solution Dual GM204 with two able fully GM204 GPUs and 16 GB GDDR5 released into the consumer market. The M60 is a full sized, dual-slot card similar to the previous generation NVIDIA GRID card, but the power of the latest NVIDIA GRID 2.0.

This is an exciting addition to Xen Desktop / Xen Server users voted as NVIDIA GRID 2.0 a hardware supply to the needs of desktop virtualization workloads graphically demanding. NVIDIA GRID 2.0 fills the felt long empty at end customers due to non maintainability for blade servers and VMs with Linux. However nonexistent NVIDIA GRID cards based on Kepler architecture support NVIDIA GRID 2.0. Therefore would K1 / K2 cards characteristics supported by Tesla missing M60 cards.

M60 supports per GM204 GPU to 32 vgpu concurrent users or 16 users. XenServer 6.5 SP1 supports 128 concurrent VMs with four Tesla M60 card on Dell PowerEdge C4130 rack servers.

The following table compares Kepler and Maxwell Cards

benefits of using Tesla M60 cards with XenServer:

• More VMs per server : Xen Server allows the user Tesla to press M60 map up to 128 users per server

• higher resolution heads . Xen Server / Xen Desktop users can now create maps M60 higher resolution using heads even after the maximum number of vGPUs on Tesla. So this card even more attractive when compared to NVIDIA GRID K1
• support blade servers .: companies can now run NVIDIA GRID virtual desktops on blade servers with XenServer activated.
• vgpu support for Linux VMs: vgpu Dundee, is the next version of Citrix Xen Server, supported on Linux HVM guests RHEL 7.0, Ubuntu 14.0.4 with Tesla M60 card. Enabling GPU powered desktops in a Linux-based VDI environment is an added advantage for all XenServer users.

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