# Creating Service Plans for GPU Hardware Passthrough

When utilizing GPU hardware, it may be most convenient to use a custom Service Plan. This allows administrators to pre-configure the number of discrete hardware cards to attach to the VM at provision time. Once provisioned, the specified number of GPUs will be attached to the VM. For workloads which are provisioned and torn down regularly, this will save additional steps of manually attaching GPUs available from the pool. On teardown, attached devices of all types are released back to the pool. Though in some cases utilizing Service Plans may be most convenient, as you’ll see in the next sections it is not strictly required. It is also possible to manually attach GPUs or other hardware types on any existing VMs running on the HVM Cluster.

To create a new Service Plan, navigate to Administration > Plans. Click + Add and then Service Plan. In the New Service Plan modal, first set the PROVISION TYPE configuration to “KVM.” This will update the available configuration fields and reveal the GPU COUNT configuration. Use this configuration to set the number of GPU hardware cards which should be attached to provisioned VMs using this Service Plan. All other configuration fields for Service Plans go beyond the scope of this section. When finished, click SAVE CHANGES.

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