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    We have a bunch of Sketchup users on V-Ray using Swarm for rendering and also several people using V-Ray with 3ds Max. The number of people with Swarm installed exceeds the number of render nodes we have. What's happening is that when a Swarm user is rendering all of the nodes are being used up and the 3ds Max folks then can't render locally or use IPR. This is a big problem. Is it possible to limit the number of render node licenses the Swarm is allowed to use at any one time without limiting the number of people who can use it? If there was some sort of setting that specified the maximum number of swarm machines that could participate in any active render so that there were always a few render nodes in reserve that would solve the issue. We have 11 render nodes and 15 Sketchup users. All 15 of those users need to be able to use the Swarm but we never need 11 machines to contribute to a render.

    The Max and Sketchup licenses used to belong to separate pools but now they're all "V-Ray Universal" and all drawing from the same pool and it's causing big problems. An alternate solve would be a way to segregate the render nodes needed by the Max people so they could never be occupied by the Swarm. Short of creating a separate account and buying more render nodes is there a way to fix this?
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