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Hi there,
Let me first outline the scenario:
So we're a team of around 8 working mainly on high resolution stills, so the workflow throughout the day tends to be fairly ad-hoc, generally managing DR node availability amongst ourselves. perhaps using the Max Server Limit.
Overnight the final stills will be queued up using backburner. One machine runs backburner server; it loads each job in turn, these jobs have DR enabled so the full farm and workstations are utilised.
OK so this works well, but there is just one niggle. For example in the morning, the last nights jobs haven't completed and are still going. This is fine I can just turn spawner off on my workstation, but a problem arises when I need part of the render farm to do some DR work, to maybe render a patch, or a draft. I don't want to stop last nights render as it is 4 hours through a 6 hour render. I can try restarting spawners on some of the render farm, but whether it picks up my current job or last nights render it completely random.
So, I thought, let's just create a firewall rule, block port 20204 and 20205 from the IP of the machine running backburner server (where last nights render is still going) But try as I might I can't seem to successfully block it. Although I do seem to be able to block my own IP from the same spawner.
I am confused, does Vray DR work on a different port when rendering from backburner perhaps? If anyone can shed any light on this I'd appreciate it.
Dan
Let me first outline the scenario:
So we're a team of around 8 working mainly on high resolution stills, so the workflow throughout the day tends to be fairly ad-hoc, generally managing DR node availability amongst ourselves. perhaps using the Max Server Limit.
Overnight the final stills will be queued up using backburner. One machine runs backburner server; it loads each job in turn, these jobs have DR enabled so the full farm and workstations are utilised.
OK so this works well, but there is just one niggle. For example in the morning, the last nights jobs haven't completed and are still going. This is fine I can just turn spawner off on my workstation, but a problem arises when I need part of the render farm to do some DR work, to maybe render a patch, or a draft. I don't want to stop last nights render as it is 4 hours through a 6 hour render. I can try restarting spawners on some of the render farm, but whether it picks up my current job or last nights render it completely random.
So, I thought, let's just create a firewall rule, block port 20204 and 20205 from the IP of the machine running backburner server (where last nights render is still going) But try as I might I can't seem to successfully block it. Although I do seem to be able to block my own IP from the same spawner.
I am confused, does Vray DR work on a different port when rendering from backburner perhaps? If anyone can shed any light on this I'd appreciate it.
Dan
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