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 <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 7:31 PM, GOEKE, MATTHEW (AG/1000) < > [email protected]> 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:[email protected]] > > Sent: Monday, August 15, 2011 12:45 PM > > To: [email protected] > > 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 >
