Hi, as usual, it depends of what you need... The cloudera VM has 1 node with everything and it allows you to see it... A quite simple cluster could have 2..3 MVs for CM & masters and at least 3 VMs for Workers. As I said and as you can imagine, it depends what you want to test on it Believe me, you really need a Cloudera admin to get what you want... In another thread refered to this blog I hope, this will help you ... View more

Thanks Josh! Yep, I did read that excellent blog post. I was mostly interested to hear if anyone else has been in a similar situation, and how they resolved it. We'll proceed as best we can and I'll report back here in the future to let everyone know how it goes. ... View more