For "trial" it should just work but for production maintaining multiple environment will be painful. This holds true not only for Hadoop but for languages such as python(in case you use it as a programming language). Not all Additional Hadoop components can run natively on windows.
> On 20-Jul-2016, at 8:13 PM, Ashish Kumar9 <ashis...@in.ibm.com> wrote: > > I have tried heterogeneous hadoop 2.6 cluster across multiple linux distros > and h/w architecture ( x86_64,ppc64le,aarc64) and it worked . I did not see > any technical challenge . > > > > From: Alexander Alten-Lorenz <wget.n...@gmail.com> > To: Prachi Sharma <prachi.sharma0202...@gmail.com>, > "user@hadoop.apache.org" <user@hadoop.apache.org> > Date: 07/20/2016 04:42 PM > Subject: RE: Windows and Linux hadoop cluster > > > > Hi, > > That should be possible, but will have performance impacts / additional > configurations and potential misbehavior. But in general, it should work for > Yarn, but not for MRv1. > https://hadoop.apache.org/docs/r2.7.2/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-site/SecureContainer.html > > cheers, > --alex > > -- > b: mapredit.blogspot.com > > From: Prachi Sharma > Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2016 9:31 AM > To: user@hadoop.apache.org > Subject: Windows and Linux hadoop cluster > > Hi All, > > Please let me know if it’s feasible to have hadoop cluster with data nodes > running on multiple Operating systems. For instance few data nodes running on > windows server and others on linux based OS (RHEL,centOS). > > If above scenario is feasible then please provide configuration settings > required in various xml > files(hdfs-site.xml,core-site.xml,mapred-site.xml,yarn-site.xml) and > environment files(hadoop-env.sh/hadoop-cmd.sh) for windows and linux data > nodes and namenode. > > Thanks ! > Prachi > >
