Chapter 3. Enabling NVIDIA GPUs

Procedure

1. To enable GPU support on an OpenShift cluster in a disconnected or airgapped environment, follow the instructions here: Deploy GPU Operators in a disconnected or airgapped environment in the NVIDIA documentation.

   Important

   After you install the Node Feature Discovery (NFD) Operator, you must create an instance of NodeFeatureDiscovery. In addition, after you install the NVIDIA GPU Operator, you must create a ClusterPolicy and populate it with default values.

2. Delete the migration-gpu-status ConfigMap.

   1. In the OpenShift web console, switch to the Administrator perspective.
   2. Set the Project to All Projects or redhat-ods-applications to ensure you can see the appropriate ConfigMap.
   3. Search for the migration-gpu-status ConfigMap.

   4. Click the action menu (⋮) and select Delete ConfigMap from the list.

      The Delete ConfigMap dialog appears.

   5. Inspect the dialog and confirm that you are deleting the correct ConfigMap.
   6. Click Delete.

3. Restart the dashboard replicaset.

   1. In the OpenShift web console, switch to the Administrator perspective.
   2. Click Workloads Deployments.
   3. Set the Project to All Projects or redhat-ods-applications to ensure you can see the appropriate deployment.
   4. Search for the rhods-dashboard deployment.
   5. Click the action menu (⋮) and select Restart Rollout from the list.
   6. Wait until the Status column indicates that all pods in the rollout have fully restarted.