Chapter 9. System Administration

In this chapter we will cover:

  • Starting Hadoop in pseudo-distributed mode
  • Starting Hadoop in distributed mode
  • Adding new nodes to an existing cluster
  • Safely decommissioning nodes
  • Recovering from a NameNode failure
  • Monitoring cluster health using Ganglia
  • Tuning MapReduce job parameters

Introduction

This chapter will discuss how to maintain, monitor, and tune a Hadoop cluster and MapReduce jobs. We will review the various Hadoop modes of operations, describe how to resolve problems within the Hadoop cluster, and finally review some important job tuning parameters.

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