Database Reference
In-Depth Information
1. Windows Server 2008 R2 (64-bit)
2. Windows Server 2012 (64-bit)
NOTE
Windows 7 and Windows 8 are not supported. But one of the best
reasons to upgrade from Windows 7 to Windows 8 is that it includes
Windows Hyper-V, which means that you can have all the benefits of
your client desktop but drive enterprise software from the Hyper-V
environment.
For the development environment, this chapter uses Windows Server 2012
Standard Edition (64-bit) with a graphical user interface (GUI). You should
allocate at least 2GB of memory for the virtual machine (VM) of your HDP
server.
Getting the Install
Because HDInsight and the HDP are a collaboration between Microsoft and
Hortonworks, you can get information about the product in multiple places.
The Microsoft website has a number of resources about Microsoft's overall
plan for big data and HDInsight in particular. You can find the information
at
http://www.microsoft.com/bigdata
.Hereyouwillfindinformation about
HDInsight Service that runs on Windows Azure (Microsoft's cloud service)
and more about the Microsoft and Hortonworks partnership. In addition,
Hortonworks provides a plethora of material for their HDP on Windows
on their website at
http://hortonworks.com/products/hdp-windows/
.
Here
you will find the download link to install HDP and plenty of documentation
and support forums for HDP on Windows.
Running the Installation
Now it is time for you to install Hadoop for the first time. In this section you
are going to install all the prerequisites for the HDP, configure your server
and configuration file, download HDP, and finally run the installation.
