You select standard, SSD, or balanced persistent disks as boot disks for Dataproc cluster nodes.
Select persistent boot disk types for cluster nodes
You can select persistent boot disks when you create a cluster using the Google Cloud console, Google Cloud CLI, or Dataproc API.
Console
You can create a cluster and select a standard, SSD, or balanced persistent boot disk for master, primary worker, and secondary worker cluster nodes from the Configure nodes panel on the Dataproc Create a cluster page of the Google Cloud console.
Google Cloud CLI
You can create a cluster and select a standard, SSD , or balanced persistent boot disk
for master, primary worker, and
secondary worker cluster nodes using the
gcloud dataproc clusters create
command with the --master-boot-disk-type,
--worker-boot-disk-type, and
--secondary-worker-boot-disk-type flags.
The default persistent boot disk type for Dataproc cluster master and
primary worker nodes is pd-standard. The default persistent boot disk type for cluster
secondary worker nodes is the primary worker node persistent boot disk type.
You can pass a value of pd-standard, pd-ssd or pd-balanced to the
--master-boot-disk-type, --worker-boot-disk-type, and
--secondary-worker-boot-disk-type flags. Any of the valid
disk type values can be set on any cluster node type.
gcloud dataproc clusters create CLUSTER_NAME \ --region=REGION \ --master-boot-disk-type=pd-ssd \ --worker-boot-disk-type=pd-ssd \ --secondary-worker-boot-disk-type=pd-standard \ other args ...
REST API
The default boot disk type for Dataproc cluster master and primary worker
nodes is pd-standard. The default boot disk type for
secondary worker nodes is the
primary work node boot disk type. You can set a value of pd-standard, pd-ssd or
pd-balanced in the
InstanceGroupConfig.DiskConfig.bootDiskType
field in the masterConfig, workerConfig, and
secondaryWorkerConfig as part of a
cluster.create
API request. Any of the valid boot disk type type values can be set on any cluster node type.