diff --git a/templates/al2023/provisioners/install-nvidia-driver.sh b/templates/al2023/provisioners/install-nvidia-driver.sh
index 5e2be8fb0..55a555215 100755
--- a/templates/al2023/provisioners/install-nvidia-driver.sh
+++ b/templates/al2023/provisioners/install-nvidia-driver.sh
@@ -136,9 +136,10 @@ sudo systemctl enable set-nvidia-clocks.service
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 sudo dnf -y install nvidia-fabric-manager
 
-# NVIDIA Container toolkit needs to be locally installed for isolated partitions
+# NVIDIA Container toolkit needs to be locally installed for isolated partitions, also install NVIDIA-Persistenced
 if is-isolated-partition; then
   install-nvidia-container-toolkit
+  sudo dnf -y install "nvidia-persistenced-${NVIDIA_DRIVER_MAJOR_VERSION}.*"
 else
   sudo dnf -y install nvidia-container-toolkit
 fi