hadoop question using VMWARE

2011-09-28 Thread praveenesh kumar
Hi, Suppose I am having 10 windows machines and if I have 10 VM individual instances running on these machines independently, can I use these VM instances to communicate with each other so that I can make hadoop cluster using those VM instances. Did anyone tried that thing ? I know we can setup

Re: hadoop question using VMWARE

2011-09-28 Thread N Keywal
Hi, Yes, it will work. HBase won't see the difference, it's a pure vmware stuff. Obviously, it's not something you can do for production nor performance analysis. Cheers, N. On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 8:38 AM, praveenesh kumar praveen...@gmail.comwrote: Hi, Suppose I am having 10 windows

Re: hadoop question using VMWARE

2011-09-28 Thread praveenesh kumar
it's not something you can do for production nor performance analysis. Can you please tell me what does it mean ? Why Can't we use this approach for production ??? Thanks On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 11:56 PM, N Keywal nkey...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Yes, it will work. HBase won't see the

Re: hadoop question using VMWARE

2011-09-28 Thread N Keywal
For example: - It's adding two layers (windows linux), that can both fail, especially under heavy workload (and hadoop is built to use all the resources available). They will need to be managed as well (software upgrades, hardware support...), it's an extra cost. - These two layers will use

Re: hadoop question using VMWARE

2011-09-28 Thread Steve Loughran
On 28/09/11 08:37, N Keywal wrote: For example: - It's adding two layers (windows linux), that can both fail, especially under heavy workload (and hadoop is built to use all the resources available). They will need to be managed as well (software upgrades, hardware support...), it's an extra