How I Installed NVIDIA Drivers on an Azure H100 VM (Airgapped Setup)

A Step-by-Step Guide to Installing NVIDIA Drivers and CUDA on Azure H100 SXM VMs in Airgapped Environments

Recently, I had to bring up a powerful Azure ND96isr H100 v5 VM—equipped with 8x H100 GPUs—Server is not connected to the internet, so I cannot install packages directly from the internet.

There was no good guide out there. So I wrote one.

This post explains:

• How to detect the GPU architecture without drivers

• How to select the right NVIDIA driver and CUDA t…