Starting an Instance

Cloudera Director requires a dedicated instance in the same subnet that can access new instances on the private network.

To start the instance:

  1. Make sure you are logged in to web console at http://aws.amazon.com/console/.
  2. Select EC2 from the Services navigation list box.
  3. Click Launch Instance.
  4. Get the AMI ID for the instance. Cloudera recommends Red Hat Linux 6.4 (ami-b8a63b88 in US-West-2) with a c3.xlarge instance type. If the AMI does not show up in the list, go to https://aws.amazon.com/partners/redhat/ and select a 64-bit version of Red Hat Linux 6.4 for the region in which you are launching the cluster.
  5. Click Community AMIs in the left pane.
  6. Enter the AMI ID. The AMI appears in the list.
  7. Click Select. The Choose an Instance Type page appears.
  8. Click Next: Configure Instance Details.
    1. Make sure to select the VPC and subnet that you created or noted earlier.
    2. The cluster launcher requires Internet access; from the Auto-assign Public IP list box, select Enable.
  9. Click Next: Add Storage.
  10. Click Next: Tag Instance and create any tags to quickly find the instance.
  11. Click Next: Configure Security Group. Then, select the Select an existing security group radio button and select the security group you noted or created earlier.
  12. Click Review and Launch.
  13. Click Launch. When prompted, launch the instance with the key pair that you created. If you selected SSD storage, you might be prompted to choose the storage type. The instance does not require SSD storage.
  14. Click Launch Instances.
  15. After the instance is created, note its public and private IP addresses.