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    Take advantage of CDH in the cloud.

    Cloudera Director provides a single administration interface for central IT to deliver agility and for end-users to self-service provision and elastically scale clusters, all while ensuring auditability.

     

    Cloudera Director runs as a web application. You can download and install the Cloudera Director server and client by selecting Standard Installation in the dropdown above. If you are new to Cloudera Director, you can get started quickly by selecting AWS Quick Start and following the wizard.

     

    Cloudera Director has native support for Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform, and Microsoft Azure.

     

    Each Cloudera Director release embeds the current plug-in for supported cloud providers, but a newer plug-in may have been posted on the Cloudera GitHub site subsequent to the Cloudera Director release. To check for the latest version, click the appropriate link:

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    The Cloudera Director SPI defines an open source Java interface that plug-ins implement to add support for additional cloud providers to Cloudera Director. For more information, see the README.md file for the SPI Cloudera Director GitHub repository.

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    The table below lists software requirements, recommendations, and supported versions for resources used with Cloudera Director.

      Cloudera Director Cloudera Manager and CDH
    Operating Systems (64-bit only)

    RHEL and CentOS 6.5, 6.7, 7.1, and 7.2

    Ubuntu 14.04

    For AWS and Google Cloud Platform: RHEL and CentOS 6.5, 6.7, 7.1, and 7.2

    For Microsoft Azure: RHEL and CentOS 6.7 and 7.2

    RHEL 7.2 is supported only for Cloudera Manager and CDH 5.7 and higher, not for lower versions of Cloudera Manager and CDH.

    To use Amazon EC2 D2 instances, you must run a minimum version of RHEL 6.7 or CentOS 6.7. Earlier versions of RHEL and CentOS do not support these instance types.
    Oracle Java SE Development Kit (JDK)

    Oracle JDK version 7 or 8

    For download and installation information, see Java SE Downloads.

    Oracle JDK version 7 or 8
    Default Database Embedded H2 database Embedded PostgreSQL Database
    Supported Databases

    MySQL 5.5, 5.6, 5.7

    MariaDB 5.5

    MySQL 5.5, 5.6, 5.7

    MariaDB 5.5

    Note: For the latest information on operating system versions supported on Microsoft Azure, refer to the Cloudera Reference Architecture for Microsoft Azure Deployments.

     

    Note: By default, Cloudera Director stores its environment and cluster data in an embedded H2 database located at /var/lib/cloudera-director-server/state.h2.db. Back up this file to avoid losing the data. For information on using an external MySQL database in place of the H2 embedded database, see Using MySQL for Cloudera Director Server. Cloudera recommends using an external database for both Cloudera Director and Cloudera Manager for production environments.

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    The table below lists requirements for resources used with Cloudera Director.

      Cloudera Director Cloudera Manager and CDH
    CPU 2 4
    RAM 3.75 GB 64 GB
    Disk 8 GB 500 GB
    Recommended AWS instance c3.large or c4.large

    Cloudera Manager: m4.xlarge or m4.4xlarge
    Recommended Google Cloud Platform instance n1-standard-2 n1-highmem-4 or n1-highmem-8
    Recommended Microsoft Azure instance Standard_D3 or larger

    The following Azure instance types are supported:

    • Standard_DS12_v2
    • Standard_DS13_v2
    • Standard_DS14_v2
    • Standard_DS13
    • Standard_DS14

     


    Note: For the latest information on instance types supported on Microsoft Azure, refer to the Cloudera Reference Architecture for Microsoft Azure Deployments.

     

    Note: The recommended instance for Cloudera Manager depends on the workload. Some instance types may not be available in every region. Cloudera Director does not dynamically validate instance type by region. Contact your Cloudera account representative for more information.

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    Cloudera Director 2.2 can install any version of Cloudera Manager 5 with any CDH 5 parcels. Use of CDH packages is not supported.

     

    If you are using Cloudera Director 2.2 to deploy Cloudera Manager and CDH, the latest released version of Cloudera Manager 5.9 and CDH 5.9 is installed by default. To use any other version of Cloudera Manager or CDH, follow the instructions for installing non-default versions of Cloudera Manager and CDH in the Getting Started section for your cloud provider:

     

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    Cloudera Director requires the following inbound ports to be open:

    • TCP ports 22: These ports allow SSH to Cloudera Director instance.
    • All traffic across all ports within the security group: This rule allows connectivity with all the components within the Hadoop cluster. This rule avoids numerous individual ports to be opened in the security group.

     

    Type Protocol Port Range Source
    SSH (22) TCP (6) 22 0.0.0.0/0
    ALL Traffic ALL ALL security_group_id

    See note paragraph below.

     

    Note: This second rule requires the security group id. If users are creating a security group from scratch, create the security group with the SSH rule and then go back and edit the security group to add allow all traffic within the security group to be allowed.

     

    In order to connect to the AWS network Cloudera recommends to open only these ports and set up a SOCKS proxy. Unless your network has direct connection to AWS you will have to set this up to access the Cloudera Director instance. This will be done in a later step.

     

    Cloudera Director also uses the following ports in a typical deployment:

    • 80 and 443: to connect to external services for validation and tracking.
    • 7180: to talk to the Cloudera Manager API
    • 22: to connect to new instances over SSH
    • 123: to configure NTP within the cluster.
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    Cloudera Director supports the following browsers:

    • Mozilla Firefox 11 and higher
    • Google Chrome
    • Internet Explorer 9 and higher
    • Safari 5 and higher
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    What's New in Cloudera Director 2.2.0

     

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