You can start with one machine or one VM if you are just looking to try out 
hadoop.  

James.


On 2010-11-09, at 11:47 AM, Fabio A. Miranda wrote:

> hello,
> 
> I am trying to setup an Hadoop cluster. From the docs, it says I need
> two master: NameNode and Jobtracker and one slave: datanode,
> tasktracker.
> 
> so, I need at least 4 machines to set up a cluster with hadoop ?
> 
> How can I define the role of each machine if core-site.xml needs to be
> the same ?
> 
> regards,
> 
> fabio.
> 
> 

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