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title: "V-Ray Swarm"
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This page provides information on the V-Ray Swarm distributed rendering service.


## **Overview**

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V-Ray Swarm is the new V-Ray Distributed Rendering manager. The next evolution of V-Ray Distributed Rendering offers a number of features that make rendering with V-Ray even faster. Currently, V-Ray Swarm is available in **V-Ray for SketchUp**, **V-Ray for Rhino**, and **V-Ray for Revit**. Its interface is also accessible by a web browser. 


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## **Features**

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All that is needed to dedicate a machine as a V-Ray Distributed Rendering server is to install and run V-Ray Swarm on it. V-Ray Swarm discovers and adds machines for rendering, handles the installation of V-Ray Standalone builds on each machine, starts and stops the rendering process, monitors CPU, RAM, and GPU resources per system, and deploys the configuration of V-Ray on all V-Ray Swarm machines with a single click. V-Ray Swarm makes V-Ray Distributed Rendering easier than ever.


The new features that V-Ray Swarm adds to V-Ray Distributed Rendering are:

- Ensures every machine is rendering with the same version of V-Ray.
- Provides the ability to monitor and manage the entire V-Ray Swarm network through a web interface.
- Monitors the state of each computer to make sure that V-Ray is active and ready, and restarts V-Ray if necessary.
- Automatically discovers machines running V-Ray Swarm over the network, eliminating the need to manually input the IP address/hostname of each render server machine.
- Automatically or manually assigns a computer to be the one that controls and manages V-Ray Swarm on the render node machines.

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> <span style="color: #272727">V-Ray Swarm 2 has released a new version: </span>**2.0.17**<span style="color: #272727">. This update makes the setup process easier by removing the need for an Origin node. Download the latest </span>[V-Ray Swarm 2](https://my.chaos.com/download/build?product=V-Ray+Swarm&build-type=official&tags=windows-x64)<span style="color: #272727"> version and see the </span>[Release Notes](https://docs-chaos.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/VRAYSWARM/pages/112689741)<span style="color: #272727"> here.</span>

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> V-Ray Swarm 2.0.17 is incompatible with the previously released 2.0.15, i.e. all Swarm instances in the cluster should be updated.

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> V-Ray Swarm controls V-Ray Distributed Rendering on each render node machine; the actual rendering is handled by V-Ray Standalone.  
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> Each machine participating in the render job requires a V-Ray Render Node license. This includes the workstation initiating the rendering process.
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> V-Ray Swarm does not provide licenses. Instead, each render node must be connected to a Chaos License Server.

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