I think it changed somewhere between 0.20 and 0.90 as I remember being able to use a separate ZK with a standalone HBase. So for the moment you can just set hbase.cluster.distributed to true which will spawn the master and the region server into 2 processes but it will still work without HDFS because they are on the same machine, and it won't start a ZK server if HBASE_MANAGES_ZK is false.
J-D On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 4:26 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi guys, > > I've been working on the configuration for hours and didn't get a clue. > > I want to configure the hbase to run in pseudo-distributed mode with external > zookeeper. But I have already configured the > export HBASE_MANAGES_ZK=false > but hbase still tries to start its own ZK, so I am wondering if it is > possible to start the hbase in pseudo-distributed mode with external > zookeeper? > > I saw from this page http://hbase.apache.org/docs/r0.20.6/hbase-conf.html , > the below property, it doesn't mention whether the value should be set to > true or false if I want to run hbase in pseudo-distributed mode with external > zookeeper; > hbase.cluster.distributed > defaule: false > The mode the cluster will be in. Possible values are false: standalone and > pseudo-distributed setups with managed Zookeeper true: fully-distributed with > unmanaged Zookeeper Quorum (see hbase-env.sh) >
