Hi Abhishek, Manu is correct about High Availability within a single colo. I realize that in some cases you have to have fail over between colos. I am not aware of any turn key solution for things like that, but generally what you want to do is to run two clusters, one in each colo, either hot/hot or hot/warm, and I have seen both depending on how quickly you need to fail over. In hot/hot the input data is replicated to both clusters and the same software is run on both. In this case though you have to be fairly sure that your processing is deterministic, or the results could be slightly different (i.e. No generating if random ids). In hot/warm the data is replicated from one colo to the other at defined checkpoints. The data is only processed on one of the grids, but if that colo goes down the other one can take up the processing from where ever the last checkpoint was.
I hope that helps. --Bobby On 4/12/12 5:07 AM, "Manu S" <manupk...@gmail.com> wrote: Hi Abhishek, 1. Use multiple directories for *dfs.name.dir* & *dfs.data.dir* etc * Recommendation: write to *two local directories on different physical volumes*, and to an *NFS-mounted* directory - Data will be preserved even in the event of a total failure of the NameNode machines * Recommendation: *soft-mount the NFS* directory - If the NFS mount goes offline, this will not cause the NameNode to fail 2. *Rack awareness* https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/attachment/12345251/Rack_aware_HDFS_proposal.pdf On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 2:18 AM, Abhishek Pratap Singh <manu.i...@gmail.com>wrote: > Thanks Robert. > Is there a best practice or design than can address the High Availability > to certain extent? > > ~Abhishek > > On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 12:32 PM, Robert Evans <ev...@yahoo-inc.com> > wrote: > > > No it does not. Sorry > > > > > > On 4/11/12 1:44 PM, "Abhishek Pratap Singh" <manu.i...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Hi All, > > > > Just wanted if hadoop supports more than one data centre. This is > basically > > for DR purposes and High Availability where one centre goes down other > can > > bring up. > > > > > > Regards, > > Abhishek > > > > > -- Thanks & Regards ---- *Manu S* SI Engineer - OpenSource & HPC Wipro Infotech Mob: +91 8861302855 Skype: manuspkd www.opensourcetalk.co.in
