Lots of people are moving towards more spindles per box to increase IOP/s This is particular important for cases where the working set gets pushed out of memory.
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 1:32 AM, Tim Robertson <timrobertson...@gmail.com>wrote: > > http://www.cloudera.com/blog/2010/03/clouderas-support-team-shares-some-basic-hardware-recommendations/ > > "4 1TB hard disks in a JBOD (Just a Bunch Of Disks) configuration > 2 quad core CPUs, running at least 2-2.5GHz > 16-24GBs of RAM (24-32GBs if you’re considering HBase) > Gigabit Ethernet" > > HTH, > Tim > > > > On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 10:11 AM, Shahnawaz Saifi <shahsa...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Dear friends, > > > > Please suggest a standard hardware configuration for hbase cluster which > is > > going to be used to pull and store a lot of data. > > > > -- > > Thanks, > > Shah > > >
