Check if hbase balancer is on. $hbase_shell> balance_switch true Run the balancer from the hbase shell
$hbase_shell> balancer If the above command returns false check for any regions in transition on the HMaster UI or check HMaster logs. Thanks Divye Sheth On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 5:10 PM, Tao Xiao <xiaotao.cs....@gmail.com> wrote: > I am using HDP 2.0.6, which has 18 nodes(region servers). One of my HBase > tables has 50 regions but I found that the 50 regions all stay in just two > nodes, not spread evenly in the 18 nodes. I did not pre-create splits so > this table was gradually split into 50 regions itself. > > I'd like to know why all the regions stay in just two nodes, not the 18 > nodes of the cluster, and how to spread the regions evenly across all the > region servers. Thanks. >
