--- title: How to Check and Configure NVIDIA GPUDirect Storage for... description: NVIDIA released gds-diag, an open-source command-line tool for diagnosing GPUDirect Storage (GDS) deployments. It runs on Linux with Python 3.8 or newer, and... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-check-and-configure-nvidia-gpudirect-storage-for-your-platform-iwrhx27un twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: How to Check and Configure NVIDIA GPUDirect Storage for Your Platform | daily.dev og:description: NVIDIA released gds-diag, an open-source command-line tool for diagnosing GPUDirect Storage (GDS) deployments. It runs on Linux with Python 3.8 or newer, and... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-check-and-configure-nvidia-gpudirect-storage-for-your-platform-iwrhx27un og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/IwrHx27Un.png og:image:alt: How to Check and Configure NVIDIA GPUDirect Storage for Your Platform og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # How to Check and Configure NVIDIA GPUDirect Storage for Your Platform **[NVIDIA Developer](https://daily.dev/sources/nvidiadev)** · 7 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary NVIDIA released gds-diag, an open-source command-line tool for diagnosing GPUDirect Storage (GDS) deployments. It runs on Linux with Python 3.8 or newer, and GDS itself requires a datacenter-class NVIDIA GPU and CUDA Toolkit 12.2 or newer. Running './gds-diag.py all /path/to/check' runs a complete sequence of diagnostics for that path, and container environments like Docker and Kubernetes are covered by a separate container-check subcommand. The tool also ships an optional agent skill, validated with Claude and Codex, that adds a natural-language interface for routing to subcommands and interpreting results. Both the tool and the agent skill are published under Apache 2.0 and CC BY 4.0 licenses. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### How do I check if my system is configured correctly for NVIDIA GPUDirect Storage? Use the open-source gds-diag command-line tool from the NVIDIA Magnum IO GitHub repository. Clone the repo and run './gds-diag.py all /path/to/check' for a full diagnostic sequence, or use subcommands like pre-install, post-install, config-audit, container-check, and mount-check for targeted checks. It requires Linux and Python 3.8 or newer. _daily.dev surfaces tooling like this for engineers tuning GPU storage pipelines before production rollout._ ### What are the requirements to run NVIDIA GPUDirect Storage with gds-diag? You need a Linux system with Python 3.8 or newer to run the gds-diag diagnostic tool itself. GPUDirect Storage additionally requires an NVIDIA datacenter-class GPU and CUDA Toolkit 12.2 or newer, though these are not dependencies of gds-diag directly since it can also run pre-install checks before GDS is set up. _Developers planning a GDS rollout can track setup requirements like these on daily.dev._ ### Can AI coding assistants like Claude or Codex help diagnose storage configuration issues? Yes, gds-diag ships with an optional agent skill that adds a natural-language interface on top of its deterministic command-line checks, validated with both Claude and Codex. The skill interprets intent, routes to the right subcommands, interprets diagnostic output, and can propose or carry out remediations, such as modifying a container launch script after diagnosing a configuration problem. _daily.dev helps developers keep up with agent-skill integrations like this one for infrastructure diagnostics._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [How to Read Data into GPU Memory in Python with NVIDIA GPUDirect Storage](https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-read-data-into-gpu-memory-in-python-with-nvidia-gpudirect-storage-nx3lgh0qd) · NVIDIA Developer · 3 upvotes · 1 comments - [Opt-In NVIDIA Software Enables Data Center Fleet Management](https://daily.dev/posts/opt-in-nvidia-software-enables-data-center-fleet-management-uyyzcddqk) · NVIDIA · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Build an AI-Powered GPU Fleet Optimizer with Gradient ADK](https://daily.dev/posts/build-an-ai-powered-gpu-fleet-optimizer-with-gradient-adk-5rpzpuxj5) · DigitalOcean Community · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#nvidia](https://daily.dev/tags/nvidia), [#storage](https://daily.dev/tags/storage), [#gpu](https://daily.dev/tags/gpu), [#cuda](https://daily.dev/tags/cuda) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-check-and-configure-nvidia-gpudirect-storage-for-your-platform-iwrhx27un) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"How to Check and Configure NVIDIA GPUDirect Storage for Your Platform","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-check-and-configure-nvidia-gpudirect-storage-for-your-platform-iwrhx27un","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-check-and-configure-nvidia-gpudirect-storage-for-your-platform-iwrhx27un"},"datePublished":"2026-10-30T15:04:37.051Z","dateModified":"2026-10-30T15:05:58.597Z","description":"NVIDIA released gds-diag, an open-source command-line tool for diagnosing GPUDirect Storage (GDS) deployments. 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