Hi Pavel, Seems your team spent some time on the performance and tuning issues. Just wonder whether an automatic Hadoop tuning tool like Starfish would be interesting to you. We'd like to exchange the tuning experience with you.
Thanks, Jie ------------------------ Starfish Group, Duke University Starfish Homepage: www.cs.duke.edu/starfish/ Starfish Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/hadoop-starfish On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 1:17 PM, Pavel Frolov <pfro...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > We are going into 24x7 production soon and we are considering whether we > need vendor support or not. We use a free vendor distribution of Cluster > Provisioning + Hadoop + HBase and looked at their Enterprise version but it > is very expensive for the value it provides (additional functionality + > support), given that we’ve already ironed out many of our performance and > tuning issues on our own and with generous help from the community (e.g. > all of you). > > So, I wanted to run it through the community to see if anybody can share > their experience of running a Hadoop cluster (50+ nodes with Apache > releases or Vendor distributions) in production, with in-house support > only, and how difficult it was. How many people were involved, etc.. > > Regards, > Pavel >
