I think it's been a long time since anyone did this. The engineering was done with microsoft heavily involved, but with their focus on Azure *and linux VMs in Azure compute*, I don't think anyone has tested -let alone deployed- a windows-based hadoop cluster on recent 3.x releases. Certainly (a) our QE teams don't and (b) nobody else files bug reports about issues surfacing in testing.
Active Directory is heavily used for kerberos auth. On Wed, 22 Sept 2021 at 10:25, pulkit khandelwal < khandelwalpulkit...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi team, > > I am trying to setup a Hadoop cluster using 5 windows nodes. While doing so > I faced some challenges for which it either takes a lot of time to resolve > or I don’t find any support on Internet. And even after the setup was done > the cluster wasn’t robust enough. > > I am not sure if there’s something I am doing wrong or windows cluster in > production is not recommended? > > If it’s not recommended to use the windows cluster in production, then can > you please state some reasons for it, as I need some evidence to present at > my workplace. > > Please let me know what do you think about this. > > Looking forward to hearing from you. > > > FYI, this cluster is going to be used in production for running spark jobs > on HDFS storage. > > Thanks and regards > Pulkit Khandelwal >
