Copy data into one of the clusters using distcp *without* downtime (assuming 
you have enough capacity) and then merge the clusters?

Thanks,
+Vinod Kumar Vavilapalli
Hortonworks Inc.
http://hortonworks.com/

On Mar 13, 2013, at 9:38 PM, Shashank Agarwal wrote:

> Hey Guys,
> 
> I have two different hadoop clusters in production. One cluster is used as 
> backing for HBase and the other for other things. Both hadoop clusters are 
> using the same version 1.0 and I want to merge them and make them one. I 
> know, one possible solution is to copy the data across, but the data is 
> really huge on these clusters and it will hard for me to compromise with huge 
> downtime. 
> Is there any optimal way to merge two hadoop clusters. 
> 
> ~Shashank

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