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50 Chapter 4 Creating and Administering Clusters
To change the number of instances of processing services on a computer:
1 Open the Apple Qmaster pane in System Preferences.
2 Select the Compressor or Rendering service in the Services section.
3 Click the “Options for selected service...” button.
4 In the dialog that appears, choose the number of instances from the pop-up menu.
5 Click OK.
6 In the Services section, select the Share checkbox for the service.
Note: The Service Options dialog is also used to add extended nodes to a cluster, as
described in the Apple Qmaster User Manual.
Creating Clusters with Apple Qadministrator
Once you configure managed service nodes and/or cluster controllers, they are visible
in Apple Qadministrator, which you use to create and modify Apple Qmaster clusters.
There are two basic steps to creating a managed cluster with Apple Qadministrator.
First, you create a new cluster and choose the cluster controller. Then, you add service
nodes to the cluster.
Choose the number of
instances from the
pop-up menu.