Overview of network rendering in mental ray for Maya

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Using Maya, there are two ways to set up network rendering.

Maya network rendering (see Managing Maya network rendering and Network render with the render command line utility)
mental ray network rendering using Satellite and Standalone (see Network rendering using Satellite and Standalone)

Network rendering using the render command line utility

Each Maya license allows you to render in Maya interactively on one machine and run batch rendering on five machines. You can therefore perform mental ray for Maya rendering on up to 6 machines.

Note

Batch rendering is different from rendering using Satellite and Standalone. With batch rendering, Maya runs independently on each machine, unlike Satellite or Standalone rendering, which relies on communication with the master mental ray for Maya.

Batch rendering licenses are per host, so you can use all cores on one machine for each batch render. Batch rendering licenses are only available for network licenses.

Note

Each batch render node must have its ADLM framework in place.