Build Hadoop-2.4.0 Source on windows and Configure in Eclipse

We can now build hadoop source version 2.4.0 on windows and configure it to use in eclipse. Follow the steps mentioned below to configure hadoop source on windows. Requisites 1. Download hadoop distribution hadoop-2.4.0-src.tar.gz from here. 2. 7-ZIP (Right click on any folder to check if it is already installed […]

HDFS High Availability Overview

Background Single Point of Failure (SPOF) in HDFS: Each cluster had a single NameNode, and if that machine or process became unavailable, the cluster as a whole would be unavailable until the NameNode was either restarted or brought up on a separate machine. Ecosystem Dependency: The Hadoop ecosystem components like […]

Configure Static IP Address in Ubuntu

You can configure a network adapter of a machine to use a static IP address. To configure static IP address in Ubuntu, you need to edit the  /etc/network/interfaces file Open the file with Sudo Option sudo nano /etc/network/interfaces Assuming that the eth1 is the adapter for which static IP address is to be […]

Install Java in Linux

To install Java in Linux, refer the following instructions: 1. Download the 32bit or 64bit compressed binary “.tar.gz” file from here. 2. Create a system directory like /usr/lib/jvm  to install JDK and copy the tar file to the directory. sudo mkdir -p /usr/lib/jvm sudo mv jdk-7u3-linux-x64.tar.gz /usr/lib/jvm/   3. Change the present […]