Installation and Configuration Guide - Axceleon

E N F U Z I O N F O R R E N D E R F A R M S I N S T A L L A T I O N A N D C O N F I G U R A T I O N G U I D EFrom the Web interface you can see that:You have 1 Cluster, named after your computerYou have 1 NodeYou have 0 RunsPlease reference the EnFuzion3D v11 Troubleshooting Guide at http://www.axceleon.com/3d/faq.htm if yourone-machine render farm is not running successfully.Getting EnFuzion to Work with Your Rendering PackagesTo get EnFuzion to work with your rendering packages of choice (e.g. Maya, After Effects) on your onemachinerender farm, you need to load the respective EnFuzion plug-ins for those rendering packages.Directions for how to do this are in the Plug-in Guide, which you can download from the same location aswhere you downloaded your EnFuzion software.The Plug-in Guide will also introduce you to the primary user interface for artists to submit jobs, to monitortheir progress and to retrieve results.Please proceed to the Plug-in Guide to continue.3.3 Adding More Machines to Your Render FarmThis section describes how to expand from the one-machine render farm to a bigger EnFuzion render farm,with a dedicated EnFuzion Control Root Computer, several User Submit Computers and several EnFuzionCompute Nodes, as show in the Figure 3-10 below.Proceed to expand your one-machine render only after you have completed all the steps in Sections 3.1 and3.2 successfully. If you have not gotten EnFuzion to work successfully with your rendering package on yourone-machine render farm, please return to Section 3.2.EnFuzion ControlRoot ComputerEnFuzion UserSubmit ComputersShared RepositoryFile ServerEnFuzion Compute NodesFigure 3-10: A typical EnFuzion Render farms15