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Hadoop 2.x Administration Cookbook

By : Aman Singh
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Hadoop 2.x Administration Cookbook

By: Aman Singh

Overview of this book

Hadoop enables the distributed storage and processing of large datasets across clusters of computers. Learning how to administer Hadoop is crucial to exploit its unique features. With this book, you will be able to overcome common problems encountered in Hadoop administration. The book begins with laying the foundation by showing you the steps needed to set up a Hadoop cluster and its various nodes. You will get a better understanding of how to maintain Hadoop cluster, especially on the HDFS layer and using YARN and MapReduce. Further on, you will explore durability and high availability of a Hadoop cluster. You’ll get a better understanding of the schedulers in Hadoop and how to configure and use them for your tasks. You will also get hands-on experience with the backup and recovery options and the performance tuning aspects of Hadoop. Finally, you will get a better understanding of troubleshooting, diagnostics, and best practices in Hadoop administration. By the end of this book, you will have a proper understanding of working with Hadoop clusters and will also be able to secure, encrypt it, and configure auditing for your Hadoop clusters.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Hadoop 2.x Administration Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
Index

Sizing the cluster as per SLA


In this recipe, we will look at how service-level agreements can impact our decision to size the clusters. In an organization, there will be multitenant clusters, which are funded differently by business units and ask for a guarantee for their share.

A good thing about YARN is that multiple users can run different jobs such as MapReduce, Hive, Pig, HBase, Spark, and so on. While YARN guarantees what it needs to start a job, it does not control how the job will finish. Users can still step on each other and cause an impact on SLAs.

Getting ready

For this recipe, the users must have completed the Memory requirements and Nodes needed in the cluster recipes. It is good to have a running cluster with HDFS and YARN to run quick commands for reference. It is also good to understand the scheduler recipes covered in Chapter 5, Schedulers.

How to do it...

  1. Connect to the master1.cyrus.com master node and switch to the user hadoop.

  2. Run a teragen and terasort on the cluster using...