Re: Cluster setup

2010-11-10 Thread Steve Loughran
On 09/11/10 18:47, Fabio A. Miranda wrote: hello, I am trying to setup an Hadoop cluster. From the docs, it says I need two master: NameNode and Jobtracker and one slave: datanode, tasktracker. so, I need at least 4 machines to set up a cluster with hadoop ? How can I define the role of each m

RE: Cluster setup

2010-11-09 Thread Habermaas, William
@hadoop.apache.org Subject: RE: Cluster setup Hello, > You don't need 4 machines. You can put everything on a single machine. That > is the easiest to get started. Once you have a cluster running on a single > machine then you can spread out over multiple machines. >

Re: Cluster setup

2010-11-09 Thread Aaron Eng
Hi Fabio, I found this site extremely helpful in explaining how to do a one node setup for a first time user: http://www.michael-noll.com/wiki/Running_Hadoop_On_Ubuntu_Linux_%28Single-Node_Cluster%29 On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 10:54 AM, Fabio A. Miranda wrote: > Hello, > > > > You don't need 4 mach

RE: Cluster setup

2010-11-09 Thread Fabio A. Miranda
Hello, > You don't need 4 machines. You can put everything on a single machine. That > is the easiest to get started. Once you have a cluster running on a single > machine then you can spread out over multiple machines. > Ok, but I don't understand what files exactly do I need to set up ?

RE: Cluster setup

2010-11-09 Thread Habermaas, William
Fabio, You don't need 4 machines. You can put everything on a single machine. That is the easiest to get started. Once you have a cluster running on a single machine then you can spread out over multiple machines. Best, Bill -Original Message- From: Fabio A. Miranda [mailto:fabio

Re: Cluster setup

2010-11-09 Thread James Seigel
You can start with one machine or one VM if you are just looking to try out hadoop. James. On 2010-11-09, at 11:47 AM, Fabio A. Miranda wrote: > hello, > > I am trying to setup an Hadoop cluster. From the docs, it says I need > two master: NameNode and Jobtracker and one slave: datanode, >