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Luke Lu commented on HADOOP-8468:
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Actually, the two approaches are orthogonal. Avoiding placing more than one
data node of the same logical cluster on the same physical host will increase
reliability even if the new topology algorithm is in place.
VM placement is only NP hard if instance configuration is arbitrary and that
you require absolute optimal placement. It's easier if the number of instance
types is limited a la AWS. I suspect that greedy algorithms exist to
approximate the optimal replacement. We don't need millisecond response time
for such placement algorithm either, which is only done once at the logical
cluster deploy time and when there are physical host failures.
It's definitely easier to do such placement when number of nodes of a logical
cluster is much smaller than the number of physical hosts, which is the case
for AWS and SmartCloud.
> Umbrella of enhancements to support different failure and locality topologies
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: HADOOP-8468
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-8468
> Project: Hadoop Common
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: ha, io
> Affects Versions: 1.0.0, 2.0.0-alpha
> Reporter: Junping Du
> Assignee: Junping Du
> Priority: Critical
> Attachments: HADOOP-8468-total-v3.patch, HADOOP-8468-total.patch,
> Proposal for enchanced failure and locality topologies.pdf
>
>
> The current hadoop network topology (described in some previous issues like:
> Hadoop-692) works well in classic three-tiers network when it comes out.
> However, it does not take into account other failure models or changes in the
> infrastructure that can affect network bandwidth efficiency like:
> virtualization.
> Virtualized platform has following genes that shouldn't been ignored by
> hadoop topology in scheduling tasks, placing replica, do balancing or
> fetching block for reading:
> 1. VMs on the same physical host are affected by the same hardware failure.
> In order to match the reliability of a physical deployment, replication of
> data across two virtual machines on the same host should be avoided.
> 2. The network between VMs on the same physical host has higher throughput
> and lower latency and does not consume any physical switch bandwidth.
> Thus, we propose to make hadoop network topology extend-able and introduce a
> new level in the hierarchical topology, a node group level, which maps well
> onto an infrastructure that is based on a virtualized environment.
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