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them, and dropping them from your installation. This command takes
several minutes to run and the output will provide you with the confidence
that you have installed HDP correctly and can begin using your installation.
Once complete, read through the output in your command shell and look for
any errors. If you find none, congratulations, you have successfully installed
HDP onto a single node “cluster.”
HDInsight Service: Installing in the Cloud
HDInsight Service is Microsoft's cloud-based Hadoop solution built from
the HDP. HDInsight Service is a great solution for both test and production
data. For test, there is no easier way to spin up a Hadoop cluster and start
loading data and running jobs. For production, HDInsight is a wonderful
elastic solution for organizations that want their clusters to grow both with
their size and complexity of their data.
You will now set up the storage containers needed for your data to reside in
Azure Storage Vault (ASV) and then create an HDInsight cluster:
1. After signing in to your Windows Azure portal, click the Storage icon
and click the New icon in the bottom-left corner. Create a new storage
container using a unique name. Choose a location that is appropriate for
you (see
Figure 3.9
)
. Later when you create your HDInsight Service
cluster, you will choose the same location as you want to collocate your
data with your computer nodes.
Figure 3.9
Configuring your Windows Azure storage.
2. Click the HDInsight icon and click Create an HDInsight Cluster or click
New in the bottom-left corner of the web page. You have two choices at
this point: to either use the Quick Create or Custom Create paths to
create a new cluster. The Quick Create path is great for getting a
development cluster up and running swiftly.
