If the hardware is drastically different, I would think a multi-volume HDFS instance would be a good idea (put like-hardware in the same volumes).
On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 3:29 PM, Tushar Kapila <tgkp...@gmail.com> wrote: > Would only matter if OS specific communication was being used between > nodes. I assume they do not do that. > If that is true -> It would depend on the network and each nodes config > for the work it is doing. Cluster performance would not suffer just because > it is heterogeneous. > > On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 8:09 PM, Ashish Kumar9 <ashis...@in.ibm.com> > wrote: > >> Hi : >> >> Has anyone tried a heterogeneous hadoop cluster with management nodes and >> data nodes running on multiple linux distros. and on multiple h/w >> architecture . >> >> If so , what is the performance of such cluster . >> >> Thanks >> Ashish > > > > > -- > Regards > Tushar Kapila >
