Introduction to Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Amazon Web Services (AWS), is a subsidiary of Amazon.com launched in 2006, which offers a suite of cloud computing services that make up an on-demand computing platform. The most central and best-known of these services arguably include Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, also known as “EC2“, and Amazon Simple Storage Service, […]

Working with HDFS Snapshots

This blog gives an overview of HDFS snapshots and different operations that users / cluster administrators can perform related to HDFS snapshots. It also explains snapshot management through Cloudera Manager. Overview of HDFS Snapshots Snapshots are data backup for protection against user errors and disaster recovery. Snapshots can be taken on a sub-tree of […]

Cloudera Manager-Configuring Static Service Pools

This blog describes the configuration of static service pools through Cloudera Manager. It assumes that you have a cloudera cluster already running and you have read the previous blog related to concept of Cloudera Manager – cgroups and static service pools. Configuring Static Service Pools To configure, open the Configuration […]