Please use the email list for project related questions. On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 4:16 AM, Periya.Data <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Andrei, > I am new to building clusters on EC2. I read about Whirr and it looks > promising. I would like to know if Whirr supports EBS-backed Ubuntu > instances. Ideally, I want the following: > - have a small cluster (maybe 5 nodes) on EC2 > - I want to have Hadoop, Sqoop, Hive on it. Preferably, pre-built when I > start the AMI. > Let's work together on adding Sqoop and Hive to Whirr! Here is a quick presentation that shows how to create a Whirr service: http://www.oscon.com/oscon2011/public/schedule/detail/19214 - Configure hadoop, hive and sqoop and have this configuration persistent > over restarts. If I have EBS-backed instances, I will only "stop" and > "start". > > Whirr seems to be a quick and nice way...but, I do not know if it > currently supports EBS. Please let me know if it supports EBS or any > feature that helps in persisting my config files + data. I do not want to > use S3 as of now... > Right now Whirr is not aware of EBS volumes and that's why you have to use S3 and distcp to export / import cluster data. > > Thanks, > PD. >
