Hi @Grant Henke    The timestamp predicate works after I cast it to timestamp, thank you for your help!   ... View more

Kudu is often bottlenecked by the speed at which it can flush data to disk. This usually corresponds to the number of data directories (and to maintenance_manager_num_threads). So certainly the more disks (and thus disk bandwidth) that Kudu has access to, the faster it can ingest data. If you reduce the number of partitions, you'll generally be reducing the overall ingest speed because you're reducing write parallelism. If your goal is to reduce ingest speed, then by all means explore reducing the number of partitions. ... View more

Yoga,   I just tried to repro your problem and I see a BYON-specific instance template popup.   One thing to note that may be confusing you is that Director requires an Type and Image field even though these concepts are not needed in BYON. Feel free to put anything you want in those fields.   If you click on the "Advanced Options", you can specify the preferred hosts for that template. Director will attempt to pick a host from that list on a best effort basis.   David   ... View more