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title: "How to set Swarm clusters with V-Ray Swarm 2.0.15"
canonical: "https://documentation.chaos.com/space/VRAYSWARM/112689755/How%20to%20set%20Swarm%20clusters%20with%20V-Ray%20Swarm%202.0.15"
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## **Overview**

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V-Ray Swarm allows all machines designated as computing resources for distributed rendering to connect with one another, forming what is known as the Swarm cluster or network. It ensures that each machine has the required version of V-Ray installed and automatically provides the correct version if it is not already available. Before beginning the rendering process, it's important to prepare the network of nodes that take part in the render job. This guide is to serve as a reference for setting up a V-Ray Swarm cluster.

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

> ⚠️ 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.


## **How to set up V-Ray Swarm Clusters**

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