HDInsight Emulator is the development edition of Azure HDInsight that runs locally on the Windows desktop and servers. It is essentially a single node Hadoop cluster where storage and compute reside on the same machine unlike the Azure cloud HDInsight service, where a cluster consists of multiple nodes and storage is on Azure Blob storage.
HDInsight Emulator is supported by the following 64-bit operating systems: Windows 7 Service Pack 1, Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack1, Windows 8, or Windows Server 2012.
To install HDInsight Emulator, open a browser and enter the URL http://www.microsoft.com/web/gallery/install.aspx?appid=HDINSIGHT.
The installation is a wizard driven by Microsoft Web Platform Installer (WebPI) and will install and configure the required dependencies. The complete installation process will take several minutes depending on your Internet connection and your system resources. After the completion, you might...