Re: Journal Nodes in a multi-site environment

2013-12-27 Thread Chadwick Banning
Thanks for this information. I'm now attempting to back out of this configuration. I need to add the JOURNALNODE component manually to two more of my nodes. I did this through the API but have not started the JOURNALNODE service on either yet. Is there anything I need to do (i.e. reinitialize s

Re: Journal Nodes in a multi-site environment

2013-12-11 Thread Olivier Renault
To get a quorum you need to have : number of QJM / 2 +1 so in case of 3 you need 2 servers to be up. If you've got 3 QJM on each side, in case of losing a DC, you will never get quorum as it will require 4 nodes. When you lose your DC with the 2 QJMs, you could manually start Hadoop on the second D

Re: Journal Nodes in a multi-site environment

2013-12-11 Thread Jeff Sposetti
Adding in some Hadoop folks to chime in here. On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 5:35 AM, Chadwick Banning wrote: > Hi all, > > I have an Ambari 1.4/HDP 2.0.6 environment that is split between two data > centers -- a main site and a recovery site. We have NameNode HA enabled > with automatic failover and

Journal Nodes in a multi-site environment

2013-12-11 Thread Chadwick Banning
Hi all, I have an Ambari 1.4/HDP 2.0.6 environment that is split between two data centers -- a main site and a recovery site. We have NameNode HA enabled with automatic failover and the problem we are facing is how to divide the journal nodes across both sites so that failover happens appropriate