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Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 16:06:12 -0400
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Subject: Re: hadoop cluster on VM's
From: Travis Camechis <camechis@gmail.com>
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My suspicion is correct it is not a good idea but mainly I was talking about
a Vmware VSphere setup with the whole vmotion thing.

On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 4:03 PM, Liam Friel <liam.friel@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 7:31 PM, GOEKE, MATTHEW (AG/1000) <
> matthew.goeke@monsanto.com> wrote:
>
> > Is this just for testing purposes or are you planning on going into
> > production with this? If it is the latter than I would STRONGLY advise to
> > not give that a second thought due to how the framework handles I/O.
> However
> > if you are just trying to test out distributed daemon setup and get some
> ops
> > documentation then have at it :)
> >
> > Matt
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Travis Camechis [mailto:camechis@gmail.com]
> > Sent: Monday, August 15, 2011 12:45 PM
> > To: common-user@hadoop.apache.org
> > Subject: hadoop cluster on VM's
> >
> > Is it recommended to install a hadoop cluster on a set of VM's that are
> all
> > connected to a SAN?
> >
> >
> Could you expand on that? Do you mean multiple VMs on a single server are a
> no-no?
> Or do you mean running Hadoop on something like Amazon EC2 for production
> is
> also a no-no?
> With some pointers to background if the latter please ...
>
> Just for my education. I have run some (test I guess you could call them)
> Hadoop clusters on EC2 and it was working OK.
> However I didn't have the equivalent pile of physical hardware lying around
> to do a comparison ... which I guess is why EC2 is so attractive.
>
> Ta
> Liam
>

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