# Hardware Passthrough

HPE Morpheus VM Essentials includes hardware passthrough and pooling support for VMs provisioned to HVM Clusters. This support extends to GPU, USB, NVME, and any other PCIe device types. In order to be usable, such devices must be attached to a HVM Host or to multiple HVM Hosts. HPE Morpheus VM Essentials includes controls to detach hardware devices from the underlying OS on the hypervisor host and add them to a pool where they are available for consumption by VMs. GPU hardware can be attached to VMs at provision time through custom Service Plans or on an ad-hoc basis by manually attaching hardware to existing VMs. Other supported hardware types must be passed through to the VM after provisioning.

NOTE

HVM Clusters sync certain data every few minutes (short sync) and other data once nightly (daily sync). New hardware attached to hosts is synced into HPE Morpheus VM Essentials during the nightly sync. To consume newly attached hardware immediately, you can force an additional daily sync at any time from the cluster detail page. Just expand the ACTIONS menu and click "Refresh Daily." Within a short time the additional daily sync will complete and newly attached hardware should be consumable from the UI.

**Subtopics**  

- **[Viewing and Assigning Hardware Devices](https://support.hpe.com/hpesc/public/api/document/sd00007621en_us/render?page=GUID-DB8D7A27-5E33-428A-BBF3-C4A79FE3C55E.html)**
- **[Creating Service Plans for GPU Hardware Passthrough](https://support.hpe.com/hpesc/public/api/document/sd00007621en_us/render?page=GUID-10D04894-711A-400A-98A7-A3DECE437CDA.html)**
- **[GPU Passthrough Example](https://support.hpe.com/hpesc/public/api/document/sd00007621en_us/render?page=GUID-580E4107-827A-43F6-888D-5CDD41EB42E0.html)**
