NVIDIA: NVIDIA Licensing Server deployment

Nvidia: Landing Page : GRID 10.1 VMware stack installation and testing

Prerequisites

1. 'Download NVIDIA License Server for Windows' NVIDIA Licensing Software Downloads

   This is under 'Additional Software'

   E.g.

   \\10.0.0.222\software\NVIDIA\GRID\NVIDIA License Server\NVIDIA-ls-windows-2018.zip

2. Oracle Java

Deploy Windows Server 2016

1. Deploy a Windows Server 2016 (must be 2016) VM
2. Install VMware Tools
3. Allow remote users to connect to this computer
4. Set a static IP address
5. Set correct timezone
6. Run Windows updates, in our example we updated to 1607
7. Take a snapshot (the installation is highly error prone)

Install Java

1. In the usual way

Set the System Environmental Variables

1. Create a system environmental variable called 'JAVA_HOME' which points to the JRE installation directory

   E.g.: For Oracle Java SE JRE: C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.8.0_191

2. Add the path of the java.exe executable to the 'PATH' system environmental variable. Currently this is the directory named 'bin'

   For example: For Oracle Java SE JRE: C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.8.0_191\bin

3. Restart server

Install NVIDIA License Server

1. Login via RDP
2. Copy and paste the 'NVIDIA License Server' archive to the new server
3. Extract the archive
4. Run the set-up file 'setup.exe'
5. Specify the opening of port 8080 in the options if applicable
6. Restart server

Test

1. From the server navigate to http://localhost:8080/licserver

   You should be presented with a similar interface to the below, minus the existing client

   

House Keeping

1. Remove installers
2. Remove snapshot