Creating Virtual Images of Cluster Hosts

You can create virtual machine images, such as PXE-boot images, Amazon AMIs, and Azure VM images of cluster hosts with pre-deployed Cloudera software that you can use to quickly spin up virtual machines.

You can create virtual machine images, such as PXE-boot images, Amazon AMIs, and Azure VM images of cluster hosts with pre-deployed Cloudera software that you can use to quickly spin up virtual machines. These images use parcels to install Runtime software. This topic describes the procedures to create images of the Cloudera Manager host and worker host and how to instantiate hosts from those images.