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Pro and Cons using VMs for CDP

HiThere — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 07:57:38 GMT

Hi all, we are planing to use Vmware VMs for our production cluster for CDP 7.1.7. Is there any recommendation on the configurations, capacity and architecture from Cloudera on this?

Any link,whitepaper or documentation will be helpful.

What is the difference in performance in using VMs than using physical servers? Which one is preferred and why?

Re: Pro and Cons using VMs for CDP

smdas — Thu, 14 Apr 2022 08:29:56 GMT

Hello @HiThere

Thanks for using Cloudera Community. To your Query, Kindly refer [1] & [2] for Resource Requirement for CDP v7.1.7. Note that Documentation refers to Hardware requirement in terms of Resources (CPU, Memory, Network, Disk) as opposed to Physical Machines or Virtual Machines. As long as your Team meet the Hardware requirement for Storage & Compute, the Virtualized & Bare-Metal choices shouldn't matter.

Regards, Smarak

[1] https://docs.cloudera.com/cdp-private-cloud-base/7.1.7/installation/topics/cdpdc-hardware-requirements.html

[2] https://docs.cloudera.com/cdp-private-cloud-base/7.1.7/concepts/topics/cm-vpc-networking.html

Re: Pro and Cons using VMs for CDP

smdas — Tue, 19 Apr 2022 08:05:25 GMT

Hello @HiThere

We hope your query concerning VMs & recommendations around Hardware is answered. We are marking the Post as Closed. If you have any further concerns, Feel free to post your ask & we shall answer your queries.

Regards, Smarak