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// * hosted_control_planes/hcp-disconnected/hcp-deploy-dc-bm.adoc

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= Hosted clusters on bare metal in a disconnected environment

[role="_abstract"]
In a disconnected environment, creating a hosted cluster involves deploying hosted cluster objects, creating node pools, creating an `InfraEnv` resource, creating bare-metal hosts, and scaling the node pools as needed.

A hosted cluster is an {product-title} cluster with its control plane and API endpoint hosted on a management cluster. The hosted cluster includes the corresponding data plane. 
