Nvidia DGX-2 - 12.4 Stopping, Restarting, and Deleting a Guest GPU VM; 12.4.1 Shutting Down a VM; 12.4.2 Starting an Inactive VM

 --user-data <cloud-config>
 --meta-data <meta-data file>
:
$ nvidia-vm create --gpu-count <#> --verbose --user-data
/home/lab/cloud-config --meta-data /home/lab/instance-data.json
Using Cloud-init
 Releases the CPUs, memory, GPUs, and NVLink
 Retains allocation of the OS and data disks
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Note: Since allocation of the OS and data disks are retained, the creation of other VMs
is still impacted by the shut-down VM.
sudo nvidia-vm shutdown <vm-domain>
nvidia-vm shutdown
Deleting a VM
sudo nvidia-vm start <vm-domain>
sudo nvidia-vm start --console <vm-domain>