David,   The "bootstrap" and "bootstrap-remote" commands are completely different. The "bootstrap" command will create a deployment and cluster without a Director server, storing the models in a local database file. There is no way to re-use these models across multiple "bootstrap" commands. "bootstrap-remote" submits the deployment and cluster to a Director server and the models will be stored in the Director server database.   See Cloudera Director Interfaces for more information about the distinction between the CLI and the Stand-alone Client.   You can modify your workflow in the following manner:   Please use the bootstrap-remote command in your step 1.   In step 2, you can terminate the cluster in the Director UI. This will leave CM running.   The existing CM will be re-used if you re-run bootstrap-remote with the same conf file or a different conf file that specifies the same "environmentName" and "deploymentName".     ... View more