Initial Install of Hadoop at the Tier 1
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Hardware setup
- Disk Servers
These were going to be of the form of vitrual disksservers ( vds*.esc.rl.ac.uk) but were not used in the end. In the future either these are real disk server could be used.
- Head Nodes
There are three virtual xen machines (SL5 64 bit) which can be used.
Software installed
- Hadoop in a box
- Hadoop in a box was succesfully installed after following instructions at:
- Release was 0.20.0
- Downloaded from hadoop page
- Did have issues trying to get the JAVA_HOME term set correctly (from the quick start instructions)
- Pseudo-Distributed Operation
- Working on ssh needs.
- Fully-Distributed Operation
- Software downloaded, configuration needed.
- Updating Linux
- Linux has not yet been updated.