For your latter question, perhaps using Apache Whirr is the easiest
way out: http://whirr.apache.org/
See
http://ctovision.com/2012/01/hadoop-quickstart-use-whirr-to-automate-standup-of-your-distributed-cluster-on-rackspace/
for one post on how to do it.
On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 4:48 AM, Xiaomeng Wan wrote:
> Hi,
> I am wondering what kind of hadoop cluster I can get on rackspace for
> a 2k/month budget (#servers, size of each server)? btw, any pointer to
> instruction on how to set up hadoop cluster or cloudera version on
> rackspace is really appreciated.
>
> Regards,
> Shawn
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Harsh J
