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4.2. Registration............................................................................................................................. 24
4.3. Obtaining an NGC Account.....................................................................................................24
4.4. Turning DGX A100 On and Off................................................................................................24
4.4.1. Startup Considerations.................................................................................................... 25
4.4.2. Shutdown Considerations................................................................................................ 25
4.5. Verifying Functionality - Quick Health Check........................................................................25
4.6. Running the Pre-flight Test................................................................................................... 26
4.7. Running NGC Containers with GPU Support........................................................................ 26
4.7.1. Using Native GPU Support...............................................................................................27
4.7.2. Using the NVIDIA Container Runtime for Docker...........................................................27
4.8. Managing CPU Mitigations..................................................................................................... 28
4.8.1. Determining the CPU Mitigation State of the DGX System............................................ 28
4.8.2. Disabling CPU Mitigations............................................................................................... 29
4.8.3. Re-enabling CPU Mitigations.......................................................................................... 29
Chapter 5. Additional Features and Instructions.............................................................. 30
5.1. Managing the DGX Crash Dump Feature.............................................................................. 30
5.1.1. Using the Script................................................................................................................30
5.1.2. Connecting to Serial Over LAN to View the Console......................................................30
Chapter 6. Managing the DGX A100 Self-Encrypting Drives............................................. 31
6.1. Overview................................................................................................................................... 31
6.2. Installing the Software............................................................................................................32
6.3. Configuring Trusted Computing.............................................................................................32
6.3.1. Determining Whether Drives Support SID...................................................................... 32
6.3.2. Enabling the TPM and Preventing the BIOS from Sending Block SID Requests........... 33
6.4. Initializing the System for Drive Encryption.......................................................................... 33
6.5. Enabling Drive Locking...........................................................................................................34
6.6. Initialization Examples............................................................................................................ 34
6.6.1. Example 1: Passing in the JSON File............................................................................. 34
6.6.1.1. Determining Which Drives Can be Managed as Self-Encrypting............................ 35
6.6.1.2. Creating the Drive/Password Mapping JSON Files and Using it to Initialize the
System................................................................................................................................ 36
6.6.2. Example 2: Generating Random Passwords.................................................................. 36
6.6.3. Example 3: Specifying Passwords One at a Time When Prompted............................... 37
6.7. Disabling Drive Locking..........................................................................................................37
6.8. Exporting the Vault................................................................................................................. 37
6.9. Erasing Your Data................................................................................................................... 37
6.10. Clearing the TPM.................................................................................................................. 38
6.11. Changing Disk Passwords, Adding Disks, or Replacing Disks........................................... 38
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