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Jan Kunigk commented on HADOOP-8468:
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Junping,
Referring to one of your earlier comments on 08/Jun/12:
> For 2. It's right that VMs on the same host will not share storage directly
> but could do so (with getting virtual disks) through Hypervisor FS (Like VMFS
> in VMware vSphere) layer.
> Another way (should recommend for hadoop case) is to go through RDM (Raw Disk
> Mapping) configuration
> in hypervisor that each VM can get some dedicated physical disks.
Are you envisioning a usage model where each virtual cluster has its own
distributed filesystem ?
When I use virtualization I would most likely suspend my virtual clusters from
time to time...
Can you comment on what would happen to the HDFS data in this case, would one
have to persist it in a different storage tier?
> Umbrella of enhancements to support different failure and locality topologies
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>
> Key: HADOOP-8468
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-8468
> Project: Hadoop Common
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: ha, io
> Affects Versions: 1.0.0, 2.0.0-alpha
> Reporter: Junping Du
> Assignee: Junping Du
> Attachments: HADOOP-8468-total.patch, HADOOP-8468-total-v3.patch,
> HVE_Hadoop World Meetup 2012.pptx, HVE User Guide on branch-1(draft ).pdf,
> Proposal for enchanced failure and locality topologies.pdf, Proposal for
> enchanced failure and locality topologies (revised-1.0).pdf
>
>
> The current hadoop network topology (described in some previous issues like:
> Hadoop-692) works well in classic three-tiers network when it comes out.
> However, it does not take into account other failure models or changes in the
> infrastructure that can affect network bandwidth efficiency like:
> virtualization.
> Virtualized platform has following genes that shouldn't been ignored by
> hadoop topology in scheduling tasks, placing replica, do balancing or
> fetching block for reading:
> 1. VMs on the same physical host are affected by the same hardware failure.
> In order to match the reliability of a physical deployment, replication of
> data across two virtual machines on the same host should be avoided.
> 2. The network between VMs on the same physical host has higher throughput
> and lower latency and does not consume any physical switch bandwidth.
> Thus, we propose to make hadoop network topology extend-able and introduce a
> new level in the hierarchical topology, a node group level, which maps well
> onto an infrastructure that is based on a virtualized environment.
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