Workspot Announcement: Upcoming Mandatory Azure NVIDIA GPU Driver Upgrade
April 15, 2024
Who is Affected
Workspot customers using NVIDIA NVadsA10-v5 GPUs on the Microsoft Azure Cloud.
What is Changing
Affects Azure GPU VMs and templates only.
- Microsoft Azure is upgrading their NVIDIA drivers on NVadsA10-v5 Series virtual machines to vGPU driver 17.x starting after May 31st, 2024.
- This means that Azure will use the 17.x version of the NVIDIA Virtual GPU Manager.
- Your Workspot desktop and template VMs must use a compatible NVIDIA Windows or Linux driver.
- Azure VMs using drivers older than vGPU 16.x are no longer supported by Azure.
- Unsupported VMs may stop working.
Action Required
- Check your current driver versions on your Azure a10-equipped Workspot Desktops and their templates.
- Upgrade drivers older than 16.x to version 16.x by May 31, 2024.