AMD GPU Monitoring in ESXi 5.5

[hammond]

Hi there,

I have an ESXi 5.5 host that contains an AMD GPU. I am looking for a way of viewing GPU usage statistics. GPU-Z is not compatible with ESXi, and AMD's own 'amdconfig' util is also not compatible.

I have previously used Nvidia GRID GPUs with ESXi and they provide their "nvidia-smi" tool, but AMD does not include anything in their driver package.

Can anybody offer any suggestions of how I can monitor GPU statistics within ESXi? This is a vSGA configuration, i.e. not a PCIe passthrough, so installing GPU-Z in the guest VM is not an option as the video driver is at the hypervisor level.

Thanks in advance, Hammond.

 

[W1zzard]

I'm not sure if that is possible even in theory?

 

[ChristTheGreat]

Except if you hardware is detected in health status of ESXi, I don't think it is possible.

 

[hammond]

Nvidia manage to do it with their Nvidia-smi tool that ships with the ESXi version of the GRID driver VIB. It gives you everything from % utilization to temperature etc etc.

AMD don't seem to currently offer any equivalent that can be used natively in ESXi for a vSGA setup. If you pass through the GPU in to specific VMs then you can use their desktop tools, but if you are using their GPUs in vSGA configuration there is no tool offered.