Great idea. Go for it. Pick a place and start writing. It is a wiki so if you start it, others will comment on it.
On 5/2/08 5:28 AM, "Khalil Honsali" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > useful information indeed, though a bit complicated for my level I must say > I think it is more than useful to post these online, say maybe in Hadoop's > wiki or as an article on cluster resource sites.. > How about it? I can volunteer for this if you wish, a central information > place on the hadoop wiki for pre-install clusters admin? > - OS image install > - ssh setup > - dsh ant tools setup > - rpm automation > - this.next( ? ) > > 2008/5/2 Steve Loughran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> Allen Wittenauer wrote: >> >>> On 5/1/08 5:00 PM, "Bradford Stephens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> *Very* cool information. As someone who's leading the transition to >>>> open-source and cluster-orientation at a company of about 50 people, >>>> finding good tools for the IT staff to use is essential. Thanks so >>>> much for >>>> the continued feedback. >>>> >>> >>> Hmm. I should upload my slides. >>> >>> >>> >> That would be excellent! I was trying not to scare people with things like >> PXE preboot or the challenge of bringing up a farm of 500+ servers when the >> building has just suffered a power outage. I will let your slides do that. >> >> The key things people have to remember are >> -you can't do stuff by hand once you have more than one box; you need to >> have some story for scaling things up. It could be hand creating some >> machine image that is cloned, it could be using CM tools. If you find >> yourself trying to ssh in to boxes to configure them by hand, you are in >> trouble >> >> -once you have enough racks in your cluster, you can abandon any notion of >> 100% availability. You have to have be prepared to deal with the failures as >> an everyday event. The worst failures are not the machines that drop off the >> net, its the ones that start misbehaving with memory corruption or a network >> card that starts flooding the network,. >> >> > > > --
