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Start a PDI Cluster on YARN is used to start a cluster of carte servers on Hadoop nodes, assign them ports, and pass cluster access credentials. When this step is run and a cluster is created, the metadata for that cluster is stored in the shared.xml file or, if you are using the enterprise repository, in the DI Repository. For more information on carte clusters, see Use Carte Clusters in the Pentaho Help . documentation.
In earlier versions of Spoon, this step was labeled Start a YARN Kettle Cluster.
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