To manage physical GPU licensing for NVIDIA Virtual Compute Server

Note: If the Licensing section and Manage Licence task do not appear in the NVIDIA Control Panel, the GPU or driver you are using does not support NVIDIA vGPU software licensed features.

From the NVIDIA Control Panel navigation tree pane, under Licensing, select Manage Licence to open the associated page.

NVIDIA Control Panel detects that a GPU is passed through to the VM or deployed to the bare-metal host. Therefore, the Licence Edition section provides the options for selecting between the NVIDIA RTX Virtual Workstation, NVIDIA Virtual Compute Server and NVIDIA Virtual Applications licence types.

If your system is currently running in NVIDIA Virtual Applications mode, select the NVIDIA Virtual Compute Server radio button.
Click Apply to assign the settings.

The Licence Edition section will indicate that your system is running in NVIDIA Virtual Compute Server mode. The system will also request the appropriate licence for the current GPU from the configured licence server. If successful, the License Edition section will indicate that your system is licensed and, beginning with the Release 495 driver, will show the licence expiry date in the GMT time zone. If unsuccessful, the system warns you that it cannot obtain a licence. The licence server details acquired from a vGPU licence will be visible in the boxes under the Licence Server Details section.

If the system fails to obtain a licence, review the Troubleshooting - Reference guidelines.