Most of your questions are covered in the official documentation: http://hbase.apache.org/apidocs/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/replication/package-summary.html#requirements
/hbase is a znode, you can see it in a ZK client: "hbase zkcli", you will see "hbase" znode there with a "ls /" command. Regards, Stas On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 8:47 AM, Venkateswara Rao Dokku <[email protected] > wrote: > How can I access verify that the data replication is done? i.e Is there a > way to verify ex. creating table on the slave machine & accessing that on > the server etc. > I have set the "HBASE_MANAGES_ZK" to true & "hbase.zookeeper.quorum" to > hbase-master. While referring to some of the sites, I came across > replication folder under /hbase. But in my set-up I couldn't find that > folder. > How can I add peers & why are these for??? > > On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 1:10 PM, Mohammad Tariq <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Hello Venkateswara, > > > > You have to set the "HBASE_MANAGES_ZK" variable in your > hbase-evn.sh > > file and configure a separate zookeeper quorum. > > Once it is done you have to give the name of your quorum as value of > > "hbase.zookeeper.quorum" > > in the hbase-site.xml. But for small > > cluster of 2 node the default zookeeper should work fine. > > > > And as far as replication is concerned I totally agree with Nicolas. Are > > you talking about cluster replication or the replication of your data. > > Latter is automatically done by Hadoop at the hdfs level. > > > > Regards, > > Mohammad Tariq > > > > > > > > On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 12:50 PM, Venkateswara Rao Dokku < > > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > I wanted to Cluster Hbase on 2 nodes. I put one of my nodes as > > > hadoop-namenodeas well as hbase-master & the other node as > > hadoop-datanode1 > > > as well as hbase-region-server1. I started hadoop cluster as well as > > Hbase > > > on the name-node side. They started fine. I created tables & it went > fine > > > in the master. Now I am trying to replicate the data across the nodes. > In > > > some of the sites it is mentioned that, we have to maintain zoo-keeper > by > > > our-self. How to do it?? > > > Currently my hbase is maintaining the zoo-keeper. what are the > changes I > > > need to do for conf/ files, in order to replicate data between > > Master/Slave > > > nodes. > > > > > > -- > > > Thanks & Regards, > > > Venkateswara Rao Dokku, > > > Software Engineer,One Convergence Devices Pvt Ltd., > > > Jubille Hills,Hyderabad. > > > > > > > > > -- > Thanks & Regards, > Venkateswara Rao Dokku, > Software Engineer,One Convergence Devices Pvt Ltd., > Jubille Hills,Hyderabad. >
