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HBase Administration Cookbook

You're reading from  HBase Administration Cookbook

Product type Book
Published in Aug 2012
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849517140
Pages 332 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Yifeng Jiang Yifeng Jiang
Profile icon Yifeng Jiang

Table of Contents (16) Chapters

HBase Administration Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Setting Up HBase Cluster Data Migration Using Administration Tools Backing Up and Restoring HBase Data Monitoring and Diagnosis Maintenance and Security Troubleshooting Basic Performance Tuning Advanced Configurations and Tuning

Adding nodes to the cluster


One of the most important HBase features is that it is extremely scalable. HBase lineally scales out by adding nodes to the cluster. It is easy to start at a small cluster and scale it out when your service and data grows. Adding a region server to an HBase cluster would be an important maintenance task for administrators.

An HBase cluster can only have one active master node. However, we can add a backup master node to the cluster to make the HBase master highly available (HA) .

In this recipe, we will describe how to add a backup master node to an HBase cluster. We will also describe adding region servers to a cluster after that.

Getting ready

Download and install HBase on the new master or region server first. Make sure the HBase configuration on that node is synced with other nodes in the cluster.

A region server usually runs on the same DataNode/TaskTracker of Hadoop. You might want to install Hadoop and start DataNode and TaskTracker on that node too.

We assume...

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