For your latter question, perhaps using Apache Whirr is the easiest way out: http://whirr.apache.org/
See http://ctovision.com/2012/01/hadoop-quickstart-use-whirr-to-automate-standup-of-your-distributed-cluster-on-rackspace/ for one post on how to do it. On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 4:48 AM, Xiaomeng Wan <shawn...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > I am wondering what kind of hadoop cluster I can get on rackspace for > a 2k/month budget (#servers, size of each server)? btw, any pointer to > instruction on how to set up hadoop cluster or cloudera version on > rackspace is really appreciated. > > Regards, > Shawn -- Harsh J
