Hi, Yes, i already have these servers, and hope can find solution to use them efficiently. does hadoop/hbase system has the 'intelligence' to arrange more work(load, lookup,etc.) to the 8cpu servers compared with 2cpu servers?
thanks! beatls On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 2:30 AM, Jean-Marc Spaggiari < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi Hua, > > It all depend what you want to do with your servers. They are already > pretty big. They will be able to handle big load. > > What's about the hard drives? > > What can of load are you going to apply? CPU intensive (Like big > regular expression on big text content to extract keywors from rows)? > Disk intensive (Like fast MRs job storring many data in an output > table)? Network intensive (Big transfers, lookups, etc.)? > > Also, is it for a lab? Or a production? > > If you already have those servers, you can simply install them with > HBase/Hadoop and run some load tests base on your usecase? > > JM > > 2013/2/26 hua beatls <[email protected]>: > > Hi JM, > > should I add more storage to the bigger ones ? > > > > many thanks! > > > > > > beatls > > > > On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 2:08 AM, Jean-Marc Spaggiari < > > [email protected]> wrote: > > > >> Hi Hua, > >> > >> You can use servers with different configuration, but the entire > >> cluster will tend to run as slow as your slowest server. However, that > >> will still help to to spread the load. > >> > >> JM > >> > >> 2013/2/26 hua beatls <[email protected]>: > >> > shoudl we use PC servers with same configuration? > >> > > >> > beatlsd > >> > > >> > On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 2:02 AM, hua beatls <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > > >> >> HI, > >> >> i have some existing PC servers, which would be used to form a > hadoop > >> >> cluster, among which 4 servers have 2cpu(6 cores), 96Gmemory, and > >> another 4 > >> >> have 8cpu(6ocres),256G memory. Big gap. > >> >> can i user these 8 servers to make a hadoop cluster? any > suggestion? > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> Thanks! > >> >> > >> >> beatls > >> >> > >> >
