

You can also distribute your licenses across multiple license servers as necessary, add new licensed products to an existing server, and delete license servers that you no longer require. To be able to download NVIDIA vGPU software licenses, you must create at least one license server on the NVIDIA Licensing Portal and allocate licenses in your entitlements to the server. The NVIDIA Licensing Portal provides access to the entitlements that you purchased and the licenses that they contain. Node locked-licensing: A client system without a network connection or on an air-gapped network can obtain a node-locked NVIDIA vGPU software license from a file installed locally on the client system.The license is returned to the service instance when the licensed client is shut down. The service instance serves the license to the client over the network from a pool of floating licenses obtained from the NVIDIA Licensing Portal. Networked-licensing: A client with a network connection obtains a license by leasing it from a NVIDIA License System service instance.

NVIDIA License System supports the types of licensing for licensed clients: To activate licensed functionalities, a licensed client must obtain a software license when it is booted. For full details of NVIDIA vGPU software releases that support NVIDIA License System, refer to NVIDIA License System Release Notes.ġ.1. Introduction to NVIDIA Software Licensing

NVIDIA vGPU software releases earlier than 13.0 do not support NVIDIA License System.
