This document shows my experience on following apache document titled “ Hadoop Cluster Setup ” [1] which is for Hadoop version 3.0.0-Alpha2. This document is successor to Hadoop Installation Document-Standalone [2]. “ ubuntul_hadoop_master ” machine is used in the rest of the machine. You will need to read and follow Hadoop Installation Document-Standalone [2] before reading any further. A. Prepare the guest environments for slave nodes. It is easy to clone virtual machines using Virtualbox. Right click “ ubuntul_hadoop_master ” and clone. Name new VM as “ ubuntul_hadoop_slave1 ”. You can have as many slaves as you like. Since we simply clone the master machine, much of the configuration comes ready. Practically slave nodes needs more disk space while master node needs more memory. But this is an educational setup and these details are not necessary. B. Install Hadoop Hadoop comes installed with " ubuntul_hadoop_master ”. C. Running Cluster In maste...
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