To manage physical GPU licensing for NVIDIA Virtual Compute Server

Note: If the Licensing section and Manage License 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 License 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 License Edition section provides the options for selecting between the NVIDIA RTX Virtual Workstation, NVIDIA Virtual Compute Server and NVIDIA Virtual Applications license types.

If your system is currently running in NVIDIA Virtual Applications mode, select the NVIDIA Virtual Compute Server radio button.

(Optional) If there is a proxy server configured in your network and license requests from client must pass through this proxy server, then enter the Proxy Server information under Proxy Server Details section

Enter the address of your proxy server in the Proxy Server Address box. The address can be a domain name such as proxyserver.example.com or an IP address
Enter the port number of your proxy server in the Port Number box

4. Click Apply to assign the settings.

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

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