Hi Ben, > > should the zookper(s) be deticated to kafka or can kafka rely on the > cluster of remote zookeper in hadoop ?
Not sure why you need zk in hadoop. e.g., are you running hbase? In any case, you don't need a dedicated zk cluster for kafka, and zookeeper chroots are handy for this (http://zookeeper.apache.org/doc/current/zookeeperProgrammers.html#ch_zkSessions). However, it is best to keep your co-locate zookeeper cluster with your kafka cluster to reduce the likelihood of session timeouts and connection loss with zookeeper. Joel
