Two nodes is insufficient. Default DFS replication is 3. That would be the bare minimum just for kicking the tires IMO but is still a degenerate case. In my opinion 5 is the lowest you should go. You shouldn't draw conclusions from inadequate deploys.
On Friday, August 23, 2013, Vamshi Krishna wrote: > Hello all, > I set up a 2 node hbase cluster. I inserted million rows in to > hbase table. Machine1-master and region server > machine-2-only region server. > After the insertion completed, Still i see the 4 regions formed for the > inserted table are residing on the machine -1 only. I waited more than 5 > minutes, as the default balancer period is 5min from hbase apache > documentation. But, still i notice all the 4 regions of the table are on > machine-1 only. not distributed automatically. > I even enabled the balancer from shell using "balance_switch true" but > no result even after 5 min. > > Could any one tell me why is it happening so.? > > > -- > *Regards* > * > Vamshi Krishna > * > -- Best regards, - Andy Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by hitting back. - Piet Hein (via Tom White)
