How to Plot Chia with GPUs in Virtual Machines - Part 5

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Install Proxmox for Chia plotter T620
Single 40GbE NIC can handle 2 plotters well, 3 plotters we start to bottleneck
VM storage setup (ZFS for VM store)
Passthrough GPUs
- All Features and Rom bar. Not primary GPU.
Mount remote file stores via NFS
Benchmark your write speed to ensure 700 MB/s per plotter can be hit (a good idea to do if following and on 40Gbe)
Download plotting software
Choose your level of compression and K size (K32 is gonna be okay I think)
Start your plotting!

CMDS

sudo apt update -y && sudo apt upgrade -y

sudo apt install openssh-server

sudo systemctl enable ssh

sudo systemctl status ssh

sudo apt install nvidia-driver-525 nvtop screen vim htop sysstat qemu-guest-agent nfs-common git -y

sudo systemctl start qemu-guest-agent

sudo systemctl enable qemu-guest-agent

sudo shutdown now

#attached the PCIe GPU

sudo mkdir -v /mnt/dataA{A,B,C,D,E}

sudo mount -t nfs 192.168.1.62:/mnt/dataAB/dataAB /mnt/dataAB

git clone https://github.com/madMAx43v3r/chia-gigahorse.git

cd chia*/cuda*/linux/x86*

./cuda_plot_k32 -n -1 -C 8 -t /mnt/dataAB/ -d /mnt/dataAB/ -f (your values) -c (your values)

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