It is not advisable to do this. Hadoop/HBase is very I/O intensive. They should have dedicated hardware. Why add the overhead of Hypervisor mediation on the I/O path then?
--- On Mon, 5/9/11, Vishal Kapoor <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Vishal Kapoor <[email protected]> > Subject: VMWare and Hadoop/Hbase > To: [email protected] > Date: Monday, May 9, 2011, 12:24 PM > We were wondering if its advisable to > provision hbase/hadoop nodes as VMWare > instances? > any suggestions? > > thanks, > Vishal >
