Hi, We are going into 24x7 production soon and we are considering whether we need vendor support or not. We use a free vendor distribution of Cluster Provisioning + Hadoop + HBase and looked at their Enterprise version but it is very expensive for the value it provides (additional functionality + support), given that we’ve already ironed out many of our performance and tuning issues on our own and with generous help from the community (e.g. all of you).
So, I wanted to run it through the community to see if anybody can share their experience of running a Hadoop cluster (50+ nodes with Apache releases or Vendor distributions) in production, with in-house support only, and how difficult it was. How many people were involved, etc.. Regards, Pavel
