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Installing Special Windows Drivers

Scenarios

Before using some types of ECSs to create private images, you need to install special drivers on the ECSs.

GPU Driver

If you want to use the created private image to create GPU-accelerated ECSs, install a proper GPU driver for the image to enable GPU acceleration. There are two types of NVIDIA Tesla GPU drivers for GPU-accelerated ECSs, Tesla and GRID/vGPU drivers.

  • To use graphics acceleration, such as OpenGL, DirectX, or Vulcan, install the GRID/vGPU driver and separately configure a GRID license. The GRID/vGPU driver with a vDWS license also supports CUDA for both computing and graphics acceleration.
  • To use NVIDIA CUDA computing acceleration, install the Tesla driver.
Table 1 Installing the GRID driver

ECS Type

How to Install the Driver

G1

For details, see Instances > Installing a Driver and Toolkit > Installing a GRID Driver on a GPU-accelerated ECS > Downloading GRID Driver and Software License Packages in Elastic Cloud Server User Guide (Paris Region).

G3

For details, see Instances > Installing a Driver and Toolkit > Installing a GRID Driver on a GPU-accelerated ECS > Downloading GRID Driver and Software License Packages in Elastic Cloud Server User Guide (Paris Region).

G2

Log in at http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us. You are advised to select the latest CUDA Toolkit version.

NOTICE:

After the GPU driver is installed, run the following command to switch the GPU working mode and restart the ECS (for example, the GPU driver is installed in C:\Program Files\NVIDIA Corporation\NVSMI\nvidia-smi.exe):

"C:\Program Files\NVIDIA Corporation\NVSMI\nvidia-smi.exe" -dm 0

SR-IOV NIC Driver

If you want to use the created private image to create G2 ECSs, install the SR-IOV NIC driver for the image to improve performance and scalability.

To download the SR-IOV driver, log in at https://downloadcenter.intel.com/search?keyword=Intel++Ethernet+Connections+CD. You are advised to select version 20.4.1 or later.

If error "No Intel adapter found" occurs during the driver installation, refer to What Do I Do If a Windows 7 ECS Equipped with an Intel 82599 NIC Reports an Error in SR-IOV Scenarios? for troubleshooting.

Parent topic: Windows Operations