Hi Benjamin, 1) It depend if you want those 3 servers to be RegionServers or not. This file is used bin/regionservers.sh to start the region servers. As Ted said, it's not REQUIRED to have HBase running, but it's helpful to start the instances. So I recommend you to add them to the list.
2) If you have added your region servers in the regionservers file, then you don't need to start your region servers. They will be start by bin/start-hbase.sh. That's the way I use on my 12 nodes cluster. If you don't add your region servers to the file, then you will have to start them manually. So, I will definitively recommend you to add them to the file and simply start your cluster using bin/start-hbase.sh. JM 2013/9/11 Ted Yu <[email protected]> > For #1, the region servers would report to master. So no. > > For #2, region server has to be started individually. > > bq. is it sufficient to launch it on one of them? > > No. > > > On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 7:03 AM, Sznajder ForMailingList < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi > > > > Here are two simple questions: > > > > > > Let's suppose I have three servers in my cluster serv1, serv2, and serv3. > > > > Question 1 : Must I add the <b>three</b> servers in the > conf/regionservers > > file? > > > > Question 2 : Must I launch bin/start-hbase.sh file on each one of the > > servers or is it sufficient to launch it on one of them? > > > > > > Thanks a lot > > > > Benjamin > > >
