Monday 25 April 2016

How to configure PCI devices on an ESX/ESXi (vmware)host.

1. Enable virtualization (vt -d) on ESX/ESXi host from Bios.
2. Now login ESX/ESXi host from vSphere Client.
3. Select an ESX\ESXi host from the Inventory of VMware vSphere Client.
4. In the Configuration tab, click Hardware Advanced Settings. The passthrough Configuration page lists all available pass-through devices.

Note: A green icon indicates that a device is enabled and active. An orange icon indicates that the state of the device has changed and the host must be rebooted before the device can be used.

5. Click Edit.

6. Select the devices and click OK.

7. When the devices are selected, they are marked with an orange icon. Reboot for the change to take effect. After rebooting, the devices are marked with a green icon and are enabled.

After that

8. To configure a PCI device on a virtual machine:
9. From the Inventory in vSphere Client, right-click the virtual machine and click Edit Settings.
10. Click the Hardware tab.
11. Click Add.
12. Choose the PCI Device.
13. Click Next.
14 Finish.

Now start virtual machine, you can see your pci device in device manager.

Tuesday 5 April 2016

How to configure EDID in nvidia control panel

1. Install nvidia driver in videowall controller which having nvidia output card eg.(nvs 300, nvs 315, nvs 510, nvs 810)

 















2. After the successfully installation of drivers please reboot your videowall controller. Now right click on videowall controller's desktop & click on Nvidia Control Panel.



















3. When you click on Nvidia control panel, a window will open, Now select View system topology feature from Nvidia control panel as shown below image.


















4. Now click on EDID (Manage EDID window) will open & click on Export EDID button as shown below image...
















5. When you click on Export EDID button, it ask for a location where EDID file saved. Now save EDID file as your desire location & named as shown below image.....
















6. Now click on load tab & select EDID file path from browse, now check mark the empty box for select all the display & click on load EDID button as shown below image.....

































7. When you click on load EDID button, after few sec a pop window will open EDID successfully loaded as shown below image.......


















8. Now your EDID is configured, as shown below image...
















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How to configure Videowall with Nvidia Card

1. Install nvidia driver in videowall controller which having nvidia output card eg.(nvs 300, nvs 315, nvs 510, nvs 810)


















2. After the successfully installation of drivers please reboot your videowall controller. Now right click on videowall controller's desktop & click on Nvidia Control Panel.
 





















3. When you click on Nvidia control panel, a window will open, Now select Mosaic feature from Nvidia control panel & select no of Display according your videowall configuration as shown below image.
















4. Now select display resolution & refresh rate as you required & click on  next as shown below image..















5. Now arrange your display according the vidowall configuration & click on apply as shown below image...
















6. After apply in few sec your videowall will configured as you required. Now click on finish, as shown below image..















7. Your videowall is ready...