In BDE 2.1, it is documented that you can create the guests for a cluster and let the distro management software (such as Ambari) install the cluster.
We are looking to upgrade to 2.1, but currently on 2.0. Is it possible to simply create the VM's and then install the cluster from Ambari? We tried installing the cluster, deleting the software (rpm --erase), and restarting the guests. It looks like BDE reinstalls the software when this happens.
It isn't the end of the world if we can't, as I said, we will upgrade to 2.1 this coming week. However, is what I have above possible?