Re: Is SAN storage is a good option for Hadoop ?

2011-09-29 Thread Steve Loughran
On 29/09/11 13:28, Brian Bockelman wrote: On Sep 29, 2011, at 1:50 AM, praveenesh kumar wrote: Hi, I want to know can we use SAN storage for Hadoop cluster setup ? If yes, what should be the best pratices ? Is it a good way to do considering the fact "the underlining power of Hadoop is co-lo

Re: Is SAN storage is a good option for Hadoop ?

2011-09-29 Thread Brian Bockelman
On Sep 29, 2011, at 1:50 AM, praveenesh kumar wrote: > Hi, > > I want to know can we use SAN storage for Hadoop cluster setup ? > If yes, what should be the best pratices ? > > Is it a good way to do considering the fact "the underlining power of Hadoop > is co-locating the processing power (CP

Re: Is SAN storage is a good option for Hadoop ?

2011-09-29 Thread Paul Ingles
Our Hadoop journey included a brief stint running on our own virtualised infrastructure. Our pre-Hadoop application was already running on the VM infrastructure so we set up a small cluster as virtual machines on the SAN. It worked ok for a while but as our usage grew we ditched it for a couple

Is SAN storage is a good option for Hadoop ?

2011-09-28 Thread praveenesh kumar
Hi, I want to know can we use SAN storage for Hadoop cluster setup ? If yes, what should be the best pratices ? Is it a good way to do considering the fact "the underlining power of Hadoop is co-locating the processing power (CPU) with the data storage and thus it must be local storage to be effe