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15 changes: 9 additions & 6 deletions source/service_offerings.rst
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possible. Otherwise, the VM can be deployed in shared
infrastructure.

- **GPU**: Specify the card you want to use.
- **GPU**: Assign a physical GPU(GPU-passthrough) or a portion of a physicalGPU
GPU card(vGPU) to the guest VM. It allows graphical applications to run on the VM.
Select the card from the supported list of cards.

The options given are NVIDIA GRID K1 and NVIDIA GRID K2. These are vGPU
capable cards that allow multiple vGPUs on a single physical GPU. If you
want to use a card other than these, make the createServiceOffering API call.
want to use a card other than these, follow the instructions in the
**"GPU and vGPU support for CloudStack Guest VMs"** page in the
Cloudstack Version 4.4 Design Docs found in the Cloudstack Wiki.

- **vGPU Type**: Represents the type of virtual GPU to be assigned to a
guest VM. In this case, only a portion of a physical GPU card (vGPU) is
assigned to the guest VM. The available options includes GRID K100, K140Q,
K200 and so on.
assigned to the guest VM.

Additionally, passthrough vGPU type is defined to represet a physical GPU
device. A passthrough vGPU can directly be assigned to a single guest VM.
Additionally, the **passthrough vGPU** type is defined to represent a physical GPU
device. A **passthrough vGPU** can directly be assigned to a single guest VM.
In this case, a physical GPU device is exclusively allotted to a single
guest VM.

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